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.
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
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
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
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
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
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-
