#emacs #advice

hey, in my super late (I swear, I got permission) #emacsconf half our talk recording, I want to reference McCarthy's Programs With Common Sense (1958/1959). https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.pdf . In McCarthy's the-six-things-lisp-was-intended-to-be-good-at, "programming the advice taker (hypothetical program)".

But I want to tread carefully around the term advice in emacs, which I think has a specific and common meaning; does anyone have a book or link for me to look over? #mastoquestions

#emacs #advice

hey, in my super late (I swear, I got permission) #emacsconf half our talk recording, I want to reference McCarthy's Programs With Common Sense (1958/1959). https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.pdf . In McCarthy's the-six-things-lisp-was-intended-to-be-good-at, "programming the advice taker (hypothetical program)".

But I want to tread carefully around the term advice in emacs, which I think has a specific and common meaning; does anyone have a book or link for me to look over? #mastoquestions

#emacs #advice

hey, in my super late (I swear, I got permission) #emacsconf half our talk recording, I want to reference McCarthy's Programs With Common Sense (1958/1959). https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.pdf . In McCarthy's the-six-things-lisp-was-intended-to-be-good-at, "programming the advice taker (hypothetical program)".

But I want to tread carefully around the term advice in emacs, which I think has a specific and common meaning; does anyone have a book or link for me to look over? #mastoquestions

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or #emacsconf on #irc .

Cc @dougmerritt @mdhughes @nosrednayduj if you would like to join. Everyone else.

Amin Bandali gopher://kelar.org/1/~bandali/https://kelar.org/~bandali/ of #emacsconf / GNU

I expect to talk about #emacsconf #smallnet #smallweb #gopher #software packaging,

viz #emacs/conf @eduardoochs ' eev and @ramin_hal9001 's view of emacs' linux-app-platform

Lots of things. I want to know what Amin's @corwin's-dungeon-mode is.

Two questions about hacker communities

#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman

This week, DJ @damaru of the Evolution Revolution will talk, including about using emacs as a #writer.

I will share my #eev mode experience, and @eduardoochs should be in #emacsconf on IRC.

I'm going to mention incredible show artist @prahou with reference to gef's last episode.
https://analognowhere.com
https://archives.anonradio.net/202506241600_gef.mp3

@mdhughes @rat

I was just wondering if you had anything you would like to see an early-emacs-days #writer do with #emacs in our community particularly (noting your https://sachachua.com/topic/#topic-index-emacs-and-writing ).

Sorry, gef, for volunteering you for lab experiments ;p

Honestly my goal is to see whether #eev anchors work for his flow, and whether it's-possible to use my own 'easy' graph stuff.