Re: Futile bug reports?

[Raymond Zeitler]

That why there's Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp, by Robert
J. Chassell.  Even I can understand it.  :-)

richter@math.northwestern.edu (Bill Richter) writes:

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> If someone gets interested in Emacs Lisp, I'll tell them they should
> read a Scheme book like SICP by Abelson or `How to Design Programs' by
> Felleisen, and then the Emacs Lisp reference manual will make sense to
> them.  I can't see how anyone could understand the Emacs Lisp
> reference manual without having prior knowledge of Scheme/Lisp.
> 

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