On 2019-03-28, John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Gian writes: >> [*] I lost the source where I read that in an organization even >> secretaries used Emacs, and that these secretaries learnt how to do >> "useful things" without a problem. Mostly because they were unaware >> they were programming. > > It was secretaries in the patent department at Bell Labs. They were > using troff and friends on Unix for typesetting and learned to write > shell scripts. This probably all happened before Emacs was operational. > They would have been editing with Ed.
I think a gorilla learned sign language once. This is much more impressive, though.