Re: PicoLisp for 9-11 years' kids

2019-04-28 Thread Joh-Tob Schäg
Hello Nehal, I've been doing some catching up on these videos. Mr. Alabhya Singh took quiet some time to explain this mathematical problem with the different approaches. I recall that in Germany when i was confronted with the same problem (apply + (range 1 N)), i was taught the Gauss approach (/

Re: Code review request: breaking a list into batches

2019-04-28 Thread C K Kashyap
Thanks Danilo .. I don't quite see how using fifo could make batch simpler - could you elaborate please? Regards, Kashyap On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:26 AM Danilo Kordic wrote: > I would simply use a Dequeue, like 'fifo'. > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 19:44 C K Kashyap wrote: > >> Thanks Alex! -

Philosophical implications of teaching PicoLisp

2019-04-28 Thread Guido Stepken
Lisp is IMHO the only programming language (i speak 23) that puts "transformation" into foreground. Like - with us humans - it's unimportant who you "are" (in contrary to Object Oriented Languages), but only how we can transform each other, we do interfere with each other. The "inbetween" here

Re: PicoLisp for 9-11 years' kids

2019-04-28 Thread Nehal
Dear Mr Kashyap, Thanks a lot for your encouraging words. It's wonderful that you could find time to watch and appreciate our videos. Will keep updating about latest in our Lisp exploration with kids. Thanks Nehal - On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 20:00 C K Kashyap This is very nice! I particularly

Re: PicoLisp for 9-11 years' kids

2019-04-28 Thread Nehal
Dear Mr Alexander, Thanks for appreciating our efforts. This was all unplanned and spontaneous. Infact we started to approach Lisp syntax with addition of numbers from 1 to 100. So all kids were focused on numbers. Syntax was just natural. The best thing was they enjoyed. And there was no fear of