Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: tenmins [countdown timer code]

[Trent Buck]

Jim Ottaway <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> thomas knoll <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I would still love to see if we could get something that works more like the
>> tenmins script. I'm learning lisp as fast as i can, so maybe I'll even be
>> able to write it. (Right now I'm reading Onlsip.pdf... any suggestions for
>> after that?)
>
> This is good for common lisp:  http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
>
> Emacs lisp differs from common lisp in some respects.  There is an
> introduction at http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/ 
>
> It might actually be installed as an info node in your Emacs too.

I should add that PG's _On Lisp_ is *not* a beginner textbook for Lisp.  Start
with Siebel's PCL instead (the gigamonkeys url above).

-- 
Trent Buck, Student Errant