| OfficerHotpants | hi with nested lisp statements does it work from the inside out? or outside in? |
| bromine | well think about it (+ (+ 2 2) 3) |
| OfficerHotpants | i'm just wondering because in one of my classes there was a language (possibly prolog?) that worked from the outside in |
| bromine | it can hardly do the outer expression before it knows the value of the inner |
| OfficerHotpants | okay. just making sure also what does cddr do? |
| bromine | its like cdr |
| OfficerHotpants | whats the difference? |
| bromine | the cdr of the cdr |
| levi_home | OfficerHotpants: You can compose car and cdr by putting a's and d's between the c and r. So the car of a cdr is cadr, and the cdr of a cdr is cddr, etc. |
| bromine | this gets confusing for anything much over 4 extra lettres s/lettres/letters |
| beach | good morning |
| OfficerHotpants | hi for me though, it's good night. midnight here in ohio is there a function in lisp to calculate the average of a list? if there is i would assume it would be called, average |
| beach | OfficerHotpants: you would have to write it yourself |
| OfficerHotpants | beach: no problem. just had to ask |
| beach | OfficerHotpants: (defun average (list) (/ (reduce #'+ list) (length list))) |
| OfficerHotpants | yeah. thats what i was thinking. so far LISP is pretty interesting hey, do you do AI programming? i'm assuming you do if you program in lisp |
| beach | OfficerHotpants: for the past few decades, we have written it "Lisp". OfficerHotpants: No, I write things like gsharp. minion: tell OfficerHotpants about Gsharp |
| minion | OfficerHotpants: look at Gsharp: Gsharp is a graphical, interactive score editing application for standard Music notation. http://www.cliki.net/Gsharp |
| OfficerHotpants | beach: whats gsharp? oh. interesting |
| beach | OfficerHotpants: and McCLIM minion: tell OfficerHotpants about McCLIM |
| minion | OfficerHotpants: have a look at McCLIM: McCLIM is Mike McDonald's Free and portable implementation of CLIM, the Common Lisp ueber-Graphics Toolkit and a Common Lisp Library. http://www.cliki.net/McCLIM |
| beach | minion: tell OfficerHotpants about Climacs |
| minion | OfficerHotpants: direct your attention towards Climacs: Climacs is an Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. http://www.cliki.net/Climacs |
| OfficerHotpants | i know i'm going to get flamed for saying this but i was never a fan of emacs i'm a vim kinda guy |
| beach | OfficerHotpants: when Lisp was mainly used for AI, it as indeed written "LISP". Now that it is the most sophisticated object-oriented langauge around, people use it for anything. |
| OfficerHotpants | i was wondering because I hear python is pretty good for AI. i just wanted to know what you thought about that |
| tritcheyMini_ | OfficerHotpants: I use it to create web sites |
| OfficerHotpants | lisp or python? |