Re: Little LISPer and Ten Commandments

2010-10-01 Thread ax2groin
Yeah, it has been a good educational resource for working through. I'm not finished, but I've put the Clojure version of all the code up here: https://www.assembla.com/code/little_clojure/subversion/nodes Looking forward to those last couple chapters. msd -- You received this message because

Re: Little LISPer and Ten Commandments

2010-09-23 Thread Julian
I concur - that book is amazing. Steve Yegge mentions he worked through the whole book in Scheme and then Common LISP. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/06/shiny-and-new-emacs-22.html (and he mentioned recently he was taking a look at Clojure.) It looks like there is a blog or two online that

Little LISPer and Ten Commandments

2010-09-22 Thread ax2groin
Newbie here, to both LISP and Clojure. A friend has lent me a copy of The Little LISPer and I've started working through it, using some web resources to translate it into clojure. My questions: How relevant are the ten commandments? What modification need to be made ... either to the commandments

Re: Little LISPer and Ten Commandments

2010-09-22 Thread David Sletten
That book is amazing. Enjoy working through it, it will stretch your mind. However, keep in mind that their emphasis is on getting a feel for how recursion works. Real world Clojure code (any Lisp really) de-emphasizes recursion to some extent. Particularly with regard to list (sequence)