[apluslist] emacs/xemacs

[Bailey, Michael L [NTK]]

Hello,

Thanks for wonderful program.  

Trying to figure out; in the Getting Started tutorial, the references
are all to Emacs, but elsewhere it's mentioned that Xemacs is the
program needed.

I have the Gnu/Linux CD and it's all preloaded anyway (by the way, thank
you again for sending that some time ago, I'm finally making time to
take some steps to learn it! - It's not for work, strictly pleasure and
lifetime learning); was considering getting the Quantian distribution in
order to upgrade painlessly.

But, I think it's true that for Emacs in the tutorial I should read
"Xemacs" and apparently they are so similar that I can learn from the
GNU manuals much which will apply to Xemacs.  Will probably research
this and find answers but wanted to make a contact and a little noise on
the list.

Have ordered a copy of K Iverson's "Analysis" (a high school text,
supposedly, using APL to demonstrate math) - my tentative plan is to try
to work through this using A+, must admit that high school was a long
time ago, and though I got into integral calculus, I never came out the
other side.  

Have also got an Interlibrary Loan request for the Iverson book "A
Programming Language" - wanted to look at it to see how far over my head
it is before buying.

I understand that A+ and APL aren't perfectly congruent, but (like Emacs
and Xemacs) the differences may not be too horrendous. 

Thanks again,

Michael Bailey

The "PATRIOT Act" is not what American patriots fought and died for. -
Dennis Kucinich
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