dax2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how did you learn Lisp?
1. reading books like SICP [1], PCL [2], PAIP [3], ANSI Common Lisp [4] and others 2. reading articles like Paul Graham's to "get" the language 3. writing code 4. reading other people code 5. asking questions (e.g. on comp.lang.lisp) > I guess you weren't interested in string-handling? Or is there a > CommonLisp "substring" function? of course it is (subseq). you may want to check this link [5]. if you need something more powerful there is a regular expression package as well [6] > How do you "think" (invent, construct) control-flow if Scheme (and > Lisp?) uses only tail-recursion as a flow-control mechanism? you have to keep in mind that while the scheme standard is very small, many implementations have more stuff built-in. OTOH, Common Lisp is a very big language with all sorts of control mechanisms like dolist, do, dotimes, loop, and much more [7]. a very flexible condition system (other languages have only "Exception Handling") and a very powerful object system. All defined in the ANSI standard. Check the standard and see for yourself [8] :-) > /Thanks in advance from Donald You're welcome Cheers, Pedro Kröger Footnotes: [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html [2] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ [3] http://www.norvig.com/paip.html [4] http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html [5] http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/strings.html [6] http://www.weitz.de/cl-ppcre/ [7] http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/sec_the_data__w_dictionary.html [8] http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/Chapter-Index.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
