Re: Land Of Lisp is out

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.lisp William James wrote: > Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > >> sthueb...@googlemail.com (Stefan H?bner) writes: >> >> >> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is >> the Elisp >> built into Emacs? >> > >> > Clojure (http://clojure.org) is a Lisp on the JVM.

Re: "Strong typing vs. strong testing"

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.lisp TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > >> >> More specifically, the claim made above: >> >> > in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always >> > work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. >> >> is false. ?And it is not necessary to invoke the vagaries of run-

Re: A link to a collection of tutorials on LISP.

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.lisp nanothermite911fbibustards wrote: > TROLL is that mythical creature who is looking for gold ? Nope, they are the ones that jump out from under bridges and scare little children cause they feel bad about themselves and need someone else to feel powerful over. I hope you get be

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme Peter Keller wrote: > The distance() function in this new model is the centroid of the syntactic > datum which represent the semantic object. Oops. I meant to say: "The distance() function in this new model uses the centroid of each individual syntactic d

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme toby wrote: > In my opinion Knuth believed in the value of literate programming for > similar reasons: To try to exploit existing cognitive training. If > your user base is familiar with English, or mathematical notation, or > some other lexicography, try to exploit the pre-wir

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme w_a_x_man wrote: > On Aug 16, 11:05?am, Petey Keller wrote: >> Compiler go through *great* pains > > Compiler work real hard. > Compiler have heap big trouble. That's a funny observation in the context of this thread--which I appreciate, since syntax really is the cornersto

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Keller
In comp.lang.scheme Xah Lee wrote: > Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations. > > http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstract.html > > this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer > ?science? idiotic authors who harbor the notion that