The entire second chapter is devoted to learning emacs. I find this to be a baffling editing decision.
"Thanks for reading this book, but before we cover what you came for, let's do this other completely orthogonal thing first."
"Thanks for reading this book, but before we cover what you came for, let's do this other completely orthogonal thing first."
One of the design goals of Parinfer[1] is to help reduce the cognitive load of Lisp syntax for newcomers. Hopefully more introductory texts adopt it as part of their environment setup.