Hi I have seen screenshots of Lisp machines. They seem awesome :-) I read somewhere they could have very very long boot time.
Karl On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:05 PM, David Leibs <[email protected]>wrote: > I wish you could have seen Interlisp-D running on a Dorado. > -David > > -David > > On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:00 PM, karl ramberg wrote: > > Hi, > Just reading a Lisp book my self. > Lisp seems to be very pure at the bottom level. > The nesting in p*arentheses* are hard to read and comprehend / debug. > Things get not so pretty when all sorts of DSL are made to make it more > powerful. > The REPL give it a kind of wing clipped aura; there is more to computing > than text io > > Karl > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, DeNigris Sean <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Alan, >> >> While we're on the subject, you finally got to me and I started learning >> LISP, but I'm finding an entire world, rather than a cohesive language or >> philosophy (Scheme - which itself has many variants, Common LISP, etc). What >> would you recommend to "get it" in the way that changes your thinking? What >> should I be reading, downloading, coding, etc. >> >> Thanks. >> Sean DeNigris >> >> You wouldn't say that "Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual" is outdated would >> you? :-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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