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From: Tim Bradshaw on 14 Apr 2010 19:06
On 2010-04-14 23:48:25 +0100, Rainer Joswig said:

> I always found Axiom pretty cool:

Yes, I looked at that, and it did look interesting, but I am lazy and I
will probably stick to mathematica and whine.

From: Rainer Joswig on 14 Apr 2010 20:03
In article <hq5hpc$tjn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:

> On 2010-04-14 23:48:25 +0100, Rainer Joswig said:
>
> > I always found Axiom pretty cool:
>
> Yes, I looked at that, and it did look interesting, but I am lazy and I
> will probably stick to mathematica and whine.

Please don't hesitate to share any further findings with us.

Best regards,

Rainer Joswig

--
http://lispm.dyndns.org/
From: Tim Bradshaw on 15 Apr 2010 06:11
On 2010-04-15 01:03:58 +0100, Rainer Joswig said:

> Please don't hesitate to share any further findings with us.

I will. After using Mathematica for a while my head has now swelled
considerably and I have realised that usenet, and especially
comp.lang.lisp, has actually been constructed for my personal use. I
will be making daily updates (possibly hourly updates), and will expect
my new internet slaves (that's all of you) to privide assistance as
requested. As a first task I want you to write a mathematica program
to address the problem that I can no longer get my t-shirts on due to
the head-swelling thing. I'll be expecting the finished version in 10
minutes, as it's kind of cold without a t-shirt.

--your new overlord

(Seriously, I can't remember what my original intent was now, but the
underlying point, I think, is that I reckon that macro hygene turns out
to be a big deal after all, but probably only in languages which have
very significantly crapper design than CL. Why I wanted to tell CLL
that I am no longer sure, other than trying to relieve the normal
intense frustration that using Mathematica induces.)


From: His kennyness on 15 Apr 2010 08:54
Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 2010-04-15 01:03:58 +0100, Rainer Joswig said:
>
>> Please don't hesitate to share any further findings with us.
>
> I will. After using Mathematica for a while my head has now swelled
> considerably and I have realised that usenet, and especially
> comp.lang.lisp, has actually been constructed for my personal use. I
> will be making daily updates (possibly hourly updates), and will expect
> my new internet slaves (that's all of you) to privide assistance as
> requested. As a first task I want you to write a mathematica program to
> address the problem that I can no longer get my t-shirts on due to the
> head-swelling thing. I'll be expecting the finished version in 10
> minutes, as it's kind of cold without a t-shirt.
>
> --your new overlord
>
> (Seriously, I can't remember what my original intent was now, but the
> underlying point, I think, is that I reckon that macro hygene turns out
> to be a big deal after all, but probably only in languages which have
> very significantly crapper design than CL. Why I wanted to tell CLL
> that I am no longer sure, other than trying to relieve the normal
> intense frustration that using Mathematica induces.)
>
>

I see. Your head growth has caused your Interverse to wrap. You are
doing Facebook updates in comp.lang.lisp. You think we work for you when
we are thinking of putting you on the night shift to keep you out of
trouble. Please unwind, bypassing protected forms.

kt
From: Raffael Cavallaro on 15 Apr 2010 10:03
On 2010-04-15 08:54:02 -0400, His kennyness said:

> You are doing Facebook updates in comp.lang.lisp.

Maybe he wants tweet.lang.lisp?

Fortunately for us, his head is now too large to fit into one of his
black helicopters.

On a more practical note, Tim, you might want to pick up a copy of
Wolfram's magnum opus _A New Kind Of Hygiene_ where he shows you how to
use cellular automata to do explicit renaming.

;^)

warmest regards,

Ralph

--
Raffael Cavallaro

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