Re: Jobs: Lisp and Python programmers wanted in the LA area

2007-02-27 Thread Wade Humeniuk
Tech HR wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Feb 26, 6:32 am, Tech HR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Our >>> website is currently a LAMP appication with P=Python. We are looking for >>> bright motivated people who know or are willing to learn Python and/or >

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-15 Thread Wade Humeniuk
Paul Rubin wrote: > > "nif" is even cleaner in Haskell, if I have this right: > > nif x p z n | (x < 0) = n > | (x == 0) = z > | (x > 0) = p > > All Haskell evaluation is automatically lazy, so no lambdas etc. needed. You can use that style in CL. (defun n

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-09 Thread Wade Humeniuk
mystilleef wrote: > > People only contribute to things they understand and appreciate. More > people would be writing Lisp libraries if it was worthwhile. > Apparently, it doesn't seem to be. A few years ago, I tried to write an > editor is Scheme. The experience was appalling. I was able to writ

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-09 Thread Wade Humeniuk
tmh wrote: > This is from the perspective of an aerospace engineer who passed > through python several years ago on the way to lisp. Futhermore, this > is a 2 glass of wine response. > Thanks for the comments. I think it is great that you took a "harder and less travelled way". It may be that

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-08 Thread Wade Humeniuk
Mark Tarver wrote: > How do you compare Python to Lisp? What specific advantages do you > think that one has over the other? > Since the late 1950's Lisp has participated in the development of modern (present day) programming practises. It has shaped and been shaped by the minds of just not pro

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-16 Thread Wade Humeniuk
Oops, problems cutting an pasting, should be, ;; Wade Humeniuk (defclass odometer () ((base :initform 0 :accessor base) (meter :initform nil :accessor meter) (n-digits :initarg :n-digits :accessor n-digits) (digit-set :initarg :digit-set :accessor digit-set))) (defmethod

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-16 Thread Wade Humeniuk
7;s just assume they're a given. > Another attempt. I have made no special attempt to create an exclusion language, just used an anonymous lambda predicate. ;; Wade Humeniuk (defclass odometer () ((base :initform 0 :accessor base) (meter :initform nil :accessor meter) (n-dig

Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-16 Thread Wade Humeniuk
Without much testing. Common Lisp Pattern exclusions are made lispy. (defun all-lists (list length) (unless (zerop length) (if (= length 1) (mapcar #'list list) (loop for elt in list nconc (mapcar (lambda (rest) (cons elt rest))