[rescue] rescue replyto

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Mar 19 10:57:44 CST 2002


On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> You've been to school - there ARE no stupid ideas.  Some ideas just have
> less immediacy and import for the situation at hand - but that doesn't mean
> that your idea, reinterpreted to a different context might not be worthwhile
> then.
> 
> BTW - working my way through "LISP - A gentle introduction to symbolic
> computing".  VERY good book for someone who doesn't quite remember how that
> code monkey stuff works, but wants to stretch his brain around a new
> language like LISP.  Plus, it's free online . . 

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

I'll have to look at that.

I have to admit that I've spent the past 2 months in either Python or C++. 
Once the C++ gets a bit more settled though, I want to link in a scheme system
of some sort, probably Guile.  There don't seem to be very many semi standard
compliant lisps for embedding inside an application, although I'll probably
explore that more anyway.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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