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From: John Thingstad on 19 Sep 2007 09:10
P� Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:32:15 +0200, skrev J. I. Gyasu <j.i.gyasu(a)nospam>:

> Ken Tilton wrote:
>> J. I. Gyasu wrote:
>>> After a bit of effort, my first working lisp code which is slightly
>>> more complex than printing "hello", it returns the nth fibonacci
>>> number.
>>> How would you lisp gurus have written the code in the proper lisp way.
>> Meaning that it works so our teacher will accept it?
>>

Kenny! Shouldnt you be writing that algebra program you have been
promising for several years.. What are you doing here harassing newbies
and playing Erik Naggum. Get a grip!
From: Ken Tilton on 19 Sep 2007 09:23


J. I. Gyasu wrote:
> Ken Tilton wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> J. I. Gyasu wrote:
>>
>> Cool, your homework solution fails on the first fibonnaci number. That
>> was the only one I got right.
>
>
> In case you nitpick was about the count starting from 0....

You Americans are all alike, and may I just express here my undying
admiration for your obsession with software correctness allowing you to
classify "does not work" as a nit. There is a great future for you in
software. Yes, we have a pool. We have a pool and a pond. The pond would
be good for you.*

Remember when we were all hoping Lisp would become more popular and I
said be careful what you wish for? Did anyone listen to me? Does anyone
ever listen to me?

hth, kenny

* Ty to Carl in Caddy Shack

--
http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/

"We are what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
From: andrew.baine on 19 Sep 2007 10:41

>
> Cool, your homework solution fails on the first fibonnaci number. That
> was the only one I got right.
>
> kt
>
> --http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/
>
> "We are what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut


Interestingly, the ratio of two successive elements in the fib
sequence converges to the golden ratio. This is true for any sequence
that starts with non-negative and positive first two elements and
follows the fib rule a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{n-2}. Like {2 5 7 12 ...}.
Or {1 100 101 ...}. So, hey, who cares about a little off-by-one
error!

From: Thomas F. Burdick on 19 Sep 2007 11:07
On Sep 19, 3:23 pm, Ken Tilton <kennytil...(a)optonline.net> wrote:
> J. I. Gyasu wrote:
> > Ken Tilton wrote:
>
> >> J. I. Gyasu wrote:
>
> >> Cool, your homework solution fails on the first fibonnaci number. That
> >> was the only one I got right.
>
> > In case you nitpick was about the count starting from 0....
>
> You Americans are all alike, and may I just express here my undying
> admiration for your obsession with software correctness allowing you to
> classify "does not work" as a nit. There is a great future for you in
> software. Yes, we have a pool. We have a pool and a pond. The pond would
> be good for you.*
>
> Remember when we were all hoping Lisp would become more popular and I
> said be careful what you wish for? Did anyone listen to me? Does anyone
> ever listen to me?

Kenny, if you're going to sneak out of the Cabal of Lispers meetings
to check on the game at the sports bar, at least ask people what you
missed before complaining in public, will ya? We need a sufficient
number of debutants actively engaged in the language if we want to
make the Semantic Winter really stick. This little wave now is a
small price to pay for the insulation they'll buy us later. And
remember your talking points: *Lisp* will transform the web into one
giant AI. If we're not careful, Python or Ruby might take credit for
the failure and then we're screwed.

From: Ken Tilton on 19 Sep 2007 12:09


Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
> On Sep 19, 3:23 pm, Ken Tilton <kennytil...(a)optonline.net> wrote:
>
>>J. I. Gyasu wrote:
>>
>>>Ken Tilton wrote:
>>
>>>>J. I. Gyasu wrote:
>>
>>>>Cool, your homework solution fails on the first fibonnaci number. That
>>>>was the only one I got right.
>>
>>>In case you nitpick was about the count starting from 0....
>>
>>You Americans are all alike, and may I just express here my undying
>>admiration for your obsession with software correctness allowing you to
>>classify "does not work" as a nit. There is a great future for you in
>>software. Yes, we have a pool. We have a pool and a pond. The pond would
>>be good for you.*
>>
>>Remember when we were all hoping Lisp would become more popular and I
>>said be careful what you wish for? Did anyone listen to me? Does anyone
>>ever listen to me?
>
>
> Kenny, if you're going to sneak out of the Cabal of Lispers meetings
> to check on the game at the sports bar, at least ask people what you
> missed before complaining in public, will ya? We need a sufficient
> number of debutants actively engaged in the language if we want to
> make the Semantic Winter really stick. This little wave now is a
> small price to pay for the insulation they'll buy us later. And
> remember your talking points: *Lisp* will transform the web into one
> giant AI. If we're not careful, Python or Ruby might take credit for
> the failure and then we're screwed.
>

I think we'll be OK:

All sufficiently ambitious software projects fail.
Lisp is used for sufficiently ambitious software projects.
Therefore all software projects fail because of Lisp.

kenny

--
http://www.theoryyalgebra.com/

"We are what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
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