[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.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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