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He's been a controversial figure in many forums but his emacs lisp tutorial is the best out there. I gave him a donation through Paypal (for approximately the price of an O'Reilly book) and he personally sent me an email thanking me.


unfortunately his knowledge of basic Lisp is relatively small and his Lisp style is also quite bad.

He does imperative programming in Lisp:

   (let (a b result)
     (setq a 1)
     (setq b 2)
     (setq result (+ a b))
     result)
code which is more than four lines is often from different sources.


Well, looks like he's got ads on his site now which I suppose takes place of the donation button.


Not sure but I think it's an emergency measure to sustain income.




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