I really enjoyed this book as well. As a self taught lisp programmer it was like looking over the shoulder of the seasoned, expert lisp programmer I've always wanted to work with but have never had the chance to do so.
I agree with the anti-Emacs sentiment for the reasons he mentions even though I do use Emacs for lisp development and think it's pretty fabulous. I don't use any of the fancy lisp editing toys, like paredit etc, and I cringe when I see developers use Emacs or IDEs to write reams of boilerplate code for them.
I've found that I need to start manually typing out code that could potentially be automatically generated so that I have the time to come to the realization that I really shouldn't be writing that code at all.
I agree with the anti-Emacs sentiment for the reasons he mentions even though I do use Emacs for lisp development and think it's pretty fabulous. I don't use any of the fancy lisp editing toys, like paredit etc, and I cringe when I see developers use Emacs or IDEs to write reams of boilerplate code for them.
I've found that I need to start manually typing out code that could potentially be automatically generated so that I have the time to come to the realization that I really shouldn't be writing that code at all.