Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:50:36 +0100
> 
> The problem is that old Emacs pros don't explain the Emacs work-flow to 
> novices and therefore novices are left to "connect the dots" on their 
> own.  When novices fail to connect some dots, they resort to configure 
> Emacs to achieve some goals in a way that they know.

That theory cannot explain how novices become "old pros".  At some
point along the time line, the Emacs workflow becomes somehow known to
yesterday's novices, and then they no longer need some or maybe most
of those customizations.  But that can't happen by itself, so
something is clearly missing in your hypothesis.