Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Christophe, > > Well, I have all the solutions I posted so far in a single large source > > file ("rosettacode.l", 17194 lines as of today). > > Wa, this is quite a lot!!! Knowing it's one of the most concise, quite > a lot of tasks must have been solved!!! Do you know how many? $ grep 'Task:

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Christophe Gragnic writes: > I was thinking trying to learn PicoLisp while reading Successful Lisp > (I already read the official PicoLisp tuto once): > http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/contents.html > The plan was to read and translate the examples in PicoLisp. > > I planned to do this during the sum

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger writes: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: >> Terry Palfrey >> writes: >> >> > Will this include the Rosetta Code examples? >> ... >> Thats not a bad idea at all, but it depends a bit on the technical side. >> It would seem to be too much work if

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: > > Well, I have all the solutions I posted so far in a single large source > file ("rosettacode.l", 17194 lines as of today). Wa, this is quite a lot!!! Knowing it's one of the most concise, quite a lot of tasks must have been solved!!! Do

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Terry Palfrey > writes: > > > Will this include the Rosetta Code examples? > ... > Thats not a bad idea at all, but it depends a bit on the technical side. > It would seem to be too much work if I had to transform the Rosetta Code

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:25:53PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > I think 'PicoLisp Works' would work pretty well as a title ... Yes, a nice title indeed. -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Terry Palfrey writes: > Will this include the Rosetta Code examples? Thats not a bad idea at all, but it depends a bit on the technical side. It would seem to be too much work if I had to transform the Rosetta Code html to Tex and then pick out the PicoLisp parts. But maybe it would be possibl

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger writes: >> > - PicoLisp Works >> >> Nice double meaning ;) > > Indeed! > >> It would be interesting to let the community vote, however, that >> seems to be a >> bit complicated. Maybe just let Alex decide what he likes best, as an >> easy solution? > > Or better you, as you are

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten, > > - PicoLisp Works > > Nice double meaning ;) Indeed! > It would be interesting to let the community vote, however, that seems to be a > bit complicated. Maybe just let Alex decide what he likes best, as an > easy solution? Or better you, as you are the editor? Cheers, - Alex

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Yiorgos Adamopoulos writes: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Thorsten Jolitz > wrote: >> That makes two proposals then: >> - PicoLisp Bible >> - PicoLisp Compendium > > Just to make them three: > > - PicoLisp Works Nice double meaning ;) It would be interesting to let the community vote, how

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Rudy Hagedorn writes: > Great idea! > > How does 'the picolisp compendium' sound as title? That makes two proposals then: - PicoLisp Bible - PicoLisp Compendium I must admit I like Compendium even better. -- cheers, Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscri

Re: PicoLisp Bible - Call for Papers

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Jakob Eriksson writes: > Great initiative! > > I will try to put something short together on how portable the > very core of (mini)PicoLisp is. No promise though, but it would be fun. Sounds definitely interesting. Even a small descriptive article would be better than nothing, this is not about

Re: PicoLisp Bible - Call for Papers

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Meadowlark technology writes: > An excellent idea Thorsten. > If I can think of a contribution I can make I will do so. Though I use > pl I would NOT say I was sufficiently expert to tell others how to do > so! Without being sufficiently expert either I made a table (mainly for myself) with all

Re: PicoLisp Bible - Call for Papers

2012-07-20 Thread Meadowlark technology
An excellent idea Thorsten. If I can think of a contribution I can make I will do so. Though I use pl I would NOT say I was sufficiently expert to tell others how to do so! Thanks Mark On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 17:10 +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm on my way to publish (in coopera

Re: subscribe

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hello a.e.handy, in case you follow this list by reading the archives: This is the third time you subscribe, but mails to you are refused. academicus.org: DNS server problem (SERVFAIL) DNS LOOKUP (MX, academicus.org) Cheers, - Alex On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:19:41PM -, a.e.handy wrot