RE: Where is Emacs Lisp taught ?

[Drew Adams]

> Of course, after 30 years of development, most of the things a beginner
> will want has already been coded up, so the beginner's reaction nowadays
> is to look for a package which provides the thing he's longing for.
> Missing this opportunity to learn to hack along the way.

Yes, and there's a lot more that's changed in
those 30 years.  Still the basic lesson holds.