[racket] Shurely Shome Mishtake

2010-09-04 Thread wooks .
(case 8 ((8 9 10) 'hello) (else 'goodbye)) -> hello (case "8" (("8" "9" "10") 'hello) (else 'goodbye)) -> goodbye I'm working in Pretty Big _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists

Re: [racket] Shurely Shome Mishtake

2010-09-04 Thread wooks .
; Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.0.1.5--2010-09-02(7fead28/g) [3m]. > Language: Pretty Big; memory limit: 512 MB. > > (eqv? 8 8) > #t > > (eqv? "8" "8") > #f > > > > Plus read the docs on case. > > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:22 PM, wooks . wro

[racket] PLAI An inauspicious start

2010-09-13 Thread wooks .
Trying out the first example in the book #lang plai (define (parse sexp) (cond [(number? sexp) (num sexp)] [(list? sexp) (case (first sexp) [(+) (add (parse (second sexp)) (parse (third sexp)))] [(-) (sub (parse (second sexp)) (parse

[racket] DrRacket performance

2010-09-18 Thread wooks .
I am running Racket on a Windows PC with an Ubuntu partition (10.4 or whatever the latest version is called). DrRacket tends to become unresponsive after it's been running for about an hour (I'm talking 15 minute response time). Worse it tends to make my whole system seize up. The problem se

[racket] Eugene Kohlbecker's dissertation

2010-09-21 Thread wooks .
Spooky. 2 weeks ago I saw a reference to this while reading the macros chapter in SAtoP and was looking for a copy online. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
If you already have a full time job in another industry, think very carefully about what you are wishing for. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/computer-science-dead-end-in-the-workforce-309 In the UK statistics have been published 6 months after graduating there are proportionately

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
Sorry if you got this twice. I think my first reply missed the list. Well you will note that the first link was from an American source. If you google "hi tech underclass" China comes up alot. Then there is this ABSTRACT The primary aim of this paper is to identify future help which ca

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
Ditto my earlier mistake > > I have been telling students for years to take bio/med classes in > addition to CS ones, since bio/med has seemed to be one of the hottest > places to be going. > I met a guy at a party who is a biomedical engineer and asked him how he got into it. He told me

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
> > Anyway, poorly-trained people in any discipline are not going to do > well except in exceptionally fat years, and computing is certainly a > discipline that, in many cases, is easy to move offshore. My view is > that over time, good graduates will be in exceptional demand, while > weak gradu

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
> > wooks, you're starting to resemble a troll (on this topic), so one > last comment (from me): people who make life-long decisions on the > basis of one year's job data are fools. They deserve what they get. > (That includes going into computer science just as much a

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
> From: s...@cs.brown.edu > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:45:17 -0400 > Subject: Re: [racket] Math Guidance > To: woo...@hotmail.com > CC: users@racket-lang.org > > > Come now Shiram, there are lots of people who don't want to go to CS grad > > school, didn't go to a name school and/or maybe don't hav

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread wooks .
On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:45 AM, wooks . wrote:Unless you are headed for CS grad school or are Google/Microsoft material (by ability or by being in a brand name school) nobody really cares about your CS degree. I think this is an overly narrow perspective. NEU works with a lot of co-op

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-05 Thread wooks .
> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:43:39 + > Subject: Re: [racket] Math Guidance > From: stk...@gmail.com > To: woo...@hotmail.com > CC: users@racket-lang.org > > To be clear here, the Education Statistic Agency has lumped together a > lot of IT-related courses together and the article has mistaken

Re: [racket] Generative Recursion

2010-11-05 Thread wooks .
Forget about the term generative recursion for a second. I've coined a phrase that for me encapsulates much of the approach of the Design Recipe - I call it Delta Programming. Why - well you have a result you would like, you have your input and you have in your template a bunch of expressions

Re: [racket] Generative recursion

2010-11-06 Thread wooks .
I tried to get you to approach this as though nobody had told you about generative recursion. In which case you would/should have tried the tried and tested formula you know, which should have led you to (tabulate-div 20) and the simple recursion that follows is (tabulate-div 19). You have

Re: [racket] Generative recursion

2010-11-06 Thread wooks .
An alternative approach. 1. Write a program called tabulate-20 that returns all the factors of 20 starting from 1. 2. Abstract tabulate-20 so that it works for numbers other than 20. _ For list-related

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-06 Thread wooks .
> > I guess I could spend time on rent-a-coder or something but > practically speaking, it seems to me like everyone cares about a CS > *degree*, even if they then summarily ignore what was ostensibly > taught for the degree. > > Deren > Paul is absolutely right, the key is getting a chance