From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Offer for taking over maintainership Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:09:03 +0530 Message-ID: <878v6r10co.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878v6s13yo.fsf@gmail.com> <87halfrxer.fsf@yahoo.fr> <87ehgjnn2s.fsf@gmail.com> <49456.46.239.234.92.1360848403.squirrel@www.hafro.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5z2D-00089e-FK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:39:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5z23-0002uN-0m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:39:33 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:53843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5z22-0002u6-O1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:39:22 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id um15so169143pbc.28 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:39:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49456.46.239.234.92.1360848403.squirrel@www.hafro.is> (Julian Burgos's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:26:43 -0000 (GMT)") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Julian Burgos Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > I have two post-graduate degrees, but I cannot code in elisp so I am quoting from this article.=20=20 I am wondering, people with two-postgraduate degrees and those with doctoratal and post-doctoral degrees can do better than secretaries. ,---- http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html | | The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved | to be a great success =E2=80=94 programming new editing commands was so | convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning | how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how | to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the | secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared | off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and | they learned to program. | `----