Lisp

Programming v Mathematics [Was: An Ultrafinite Set Theory]
In article <20100227020331.V50201(a)agora.rdrop.com>, William Elliot <marsh(a)rdrop.remove.com> wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, RussellE wrote: [SNIP] Yes. I keep forgetting everyone isn't a computer programmer. Likely you're ignorant of the fact that programmers know less math learning programing than ... 1 Mar 2010 20:58

weird GASP error using LUSH
I was a newbie to lush programming. And I can't make it work properly I am using Fedora 12/Linux as platform. My lush version is lush-1.2.1-6. When I trying, ############################################### (de harmonic (n) ((-double-) n) (let* ((z 0) (i 0)) ((-double-) z i) ... 27 Feb 2010 02:21

Macros and anonymous functions
Hi all, I don't really understand why this is: CL-USER> (defmacro foo (pair) (funcall (car pair) (cadr pair))) FOO CL-USER> (defun bar (arg) arg) BAR CL-USER> (foo (bar "baz")) "baz" CL-USER> (let ((baz (lambda (arg) arg))) (foo (baz "quux"))) ; in: LAMBDA NIL ; (FOO... 2 Mar 2010 08:57

another frustrating learner question, CLOS
Learning Lisp is like pulling teeth, except more painful! Here is a code snippet copied directly from Figure 11.2, page 178, of Graham's 'ANSI Common Lisp': (defclass rec () (height width)) (defclass cir () (radius)) (defmethod area ((x rec)) (* (slot-value x 'height) (slot-value x 'width ))) (defmeth... 8 Mar 2010 22:01

Anybody mind to translate this Felleisen quote from German to English
Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blazeski(a)gmail.com> writes: Wir sind froh, dass die Absolventen schon Java k��nnen. Programmieren m��ssen wir denen halt noch beibringen. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/programming.html Roughly: "We are happy that the graduates already know Java. But we still need to ... 24 Feb 2010 18:50

Anybody mind to translate this Felleisen quote from German to English
On Feb 24, 9:27 pm, Peter Herth <p.he...(a)gmail.com> wrote: Slobodan Blazeski schrieb: Wir sind froh, dass die Absolventen schon Java können. Programmieren müssen wir denen halt noch beibringen. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/programming.html We are happy, that the graduates already know ... 26 Feb 2010 11:53

Anybody mind to translate this Felleisen quote from German to English
Slobodan Blazeski schrieb: Wir sind froh, dass die Absolventen schon Java k�nnen. Programmieren m�ssen wir denen halt noch beibringen. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/programming.html We are happy, that the graduates already know Java. We only have to teach them programming then. Peter ... 24 Feb 2010 16:32

Anybody mind to translate this Felleisen quote from German to English
Wir sind froh, dass die Absolventen schon Java können. Programmieren müssen wir denen halt noch beibringen. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/programming.html thanks Bobi P.S. I've already tried google and babelfish translate. ... 24 Feb 2010 15:23

Does clisp have a limit to the number of slots in a class?
Strangely, when I created a class instance in CLOS containing more than 8 slots, any slot values entered after the 8th are ignored. The number of slots available to a class is supposed to be implementation dependent, so how do I find out/change what it is for clisp on Mac OS X? ... 24 Feb 2010 17:41

Slime with Squeeze?
Hello, I have recently switched to Debian Squeeze (a testing distro) and when I start slime from emacs23 I get the attached debugger message. Does anyone know how to handle this? I found a (one year old) bug report on Debian about that problem and it was said to only occur with sbcl. So I installed cmucl, too,... 24 Feb 2010 05:19