Re: Best way to learn picolisp

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > So, what would the best way to learn picolisp be for a total beginner? > Real coding of any task is the best way to learn any programming language. Mike ​

Re: PicoLisp Docker container

My experience with LXC is that they work just like a typical VM but being a container they're faster and easier to handle. We've split up our database over 10 LXC containers running MySQL, works great. Caveat, we're using Ubuntu, I've gotten the impression that LXC is a bit harder to setup in

Re: Best way to learn picolisp

I would say PL is much easier, less cruft. Start with picolisp.com On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > So, what would the best way to learn picolisp be for a total beginner? It > might seem like you should just bite the bullet and learn regular Common >

Re: Best way to learn picolisp

I get the impression comparing CL to Picolisp is a bit like comparing C++ to Javascript* - they look similar only if you stand far enough away from the screen... (* there isn't really a C-family language that fits the example, but anyway) On 8 June 2016 at 14:46, Joe Golden

Re: Best way to learn picolisp

I've written some simple programs in Common Lisp and I agree that pico hues more to the original spirit of McCarthy in it's simplicity and power. I say learn pico first then you probably won't need CL ;-) All that said, it's hard for newbies to learn. I don't expect it to be easy. I don't

Re: Best way to learn picolisp

If you have no Lisp background, and what you want to learn is PicoLisp, then I don’t think learning Common Lisp first will be any advantage. I believe Common Lisp differs quite a bit from PicoLisp. If you have experience with some other popular language X, then you can compare the Rosetta Code

Re: Best way to learn picolisp

It's more like Common Lisp is a derivative of PicoLisp, seriously. :-) So I'd go for pico first, it's easier to understand. > 8 juni 2016 kl. 14:08 skrev Lawrence Bottorff : > > So, what would the best way to learn picolisp be for a total beginner? It > might seem like you

Best way to learn picolisp

So, what would the best way to learn picolisp be for a total beginner? It might seem like you should just bite the bullet and learn regular Common Lisp first, then start learning picolisp. That is, you should know all the capabilities of Lisp before you try to learn a derivative Lisp. Is this

Re: Sending arbitrary messages to object

Thanks, Alex. /Jon > On 7. Jun, 2016, at 17:43, Alexander Burger wrote: > > Hi Jon, > >> I want to send arbitrary messages to an object MyObj. If I have a word >> "msg", then I want to send the message 'msg> to MyObj. I do it like >> this: >> >> (setq Word "msg") >>