[TFNA]

Of course, but not everyone has a reason to look at it in the beginning. As I said, I only became interested in hacking Elisp once I had been using Emacs for a long while (years) and eventually ran into cases where I wanted to change default behaviour. Meanwhile, all my hacking energy was going to other languages for which I just used Emacs as the IDE with the supplied major modes.

[anthk]

Ah, when I was a teen I always wanted to read everything as I had no internet at home and often you founds manuals, gems such as great programming and Math books and whatnot.