The Princess Bride really is very, very good!

[Hypersmurf]

In one particularly distressing assignment, I was required to write a program in LISP and in Prolog that actually involved I/O! All in all, anything harder than assembly language should probably just be written in assembly language!

I found I really, really enjoyed the LISP assignments I had - it was an "Introduction to AI" paper.

The interesting thing about LISP is that code and data are stored in the same form - the list - so it's ideal for creating programs that manipulate their own structure...

-Hyp.

 

[ConnorSB]

You don't truly appreciate parentheses until you've programmed in LISP

There's nothing quite like finishing a piece of code with

))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

-Hyp.

I remember when I used to use lisp. Oh, Man...

It was satisfying though, since my particular compiler highlighted everything "inside the current parentheses set", so at the end of the program, I would keep hitting ) until the whole screen was highlighted green.

My only qualm with lisp is that functions cannot inter-recall. That is to say, if A can call B, B must be defined before A, which means that B cannot call A, because A CANNOT be defined yet. Stupid lack of function templates... grr...

 

[Hypersmurf]

My only qualm with lisp is that functions cannot inter-recall. That is to say, if A can call B, B must be defined before A, which means that B cannot call A, because A CANNOT be defined yet. Stupid lack of function templates... grr...

It's been a while, but I seem to recall there were workarounds for that, weren't there?

-Hyp.

 

[ConnorSB]

not in the version I was using. it wasn't actually lisp, it was a "lisp based language" called scheme. But it was close enough to lisp to be the real thing.

And then we started learning C++, and I never looked back.

Well, Scheme was a good tool for teaching the basics of programing (fuctions, variables, recursion, etc). But it also lacked loops! No loops! Maybe real lisp has them, but Scheme certainly didnt.

 

[ConnorSB]

Oh, and I love the Princess Bride, both the book and movie...