I think I've mentioned before that Lisp has been like a strange
attractor for me. Well, I was just taking a trip down memory lane,
AKA Google Groups, and found some cll articles I posted that lead to
my first false start with Lisp. One that seems particularly telling
is this one:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/98015998cf646636
In the same thread, Rainer Joswig posted this rather prophetic
article:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4b6ae385e759cc09
I could really have had this language down by now :-(
I did find an extra quote worth adding to my .sig. My PowerBook G4 is
named interloper. Previously that name belonged to a PPro 200.
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--- Erik Naggum
David Steuber wrote:
> I think I've mentioned before that Lisp has been like a strange
> attractor for me. Well, I was just taking a trip down memory lane,
> AKA Google Groups, and found some cll articles I posted that lead to
> my first false start with Lisp. One that seems particularly telling
> is this one:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/98015998cf646636
>
> In the same thread, Rainer Joswig posted this rather prophetic
> article:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4b6ae385e759cc09
>
> I could really have had this language down by now :-(
>
> I did find an extra quote worth adding to my .sig. My PowerBook G4 is
> named interloper. Previously that name belonged to a PPro 200.
>
I suspect there's plenty of us around who are excited by the potential
we see in Lisp, but keep abjectly failing to get off the ground.
I'm still struggling to find a satisfactory Lisp for Windows. Something
with a decent IDE and which isn't a stupid crippled trial version that
deliberately exits or expires when I've barely got started doing
anything. Note to vendors: I'm not going to fork out several hundred
quid for something until I start using it professionally. If I can't
trial your package in an unrestricted way then your market probably
won't ever expand to include me :)
This morning I found "Lisp in a Box". The home page makes it sound
wonderfully simple. However, when I try to run the emacs tutorial as
advised, the file appears to be missing. A bit more farting around
trying to figure it out, and my c++ has finished compiling, so back to work.
p.s. is the PCL book coming to Europe soon?
Glen Able <·········@gmail.com> writes:
> p.s. is the PCL book coming to Europe soon?
I ordered it from a Swedish internet bookstore, and they claimed
delivery within two weeks.
"Lars Brinkhoff" <·········@nocrew.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Glen Able <·········@gmail.com> writes:
> > p.s. is the PCL book coming to Europe soon?
>
> I ordered it from a Swedish internet bookstore, and they claimed
> delivery within two weeks.
I already got my preorder from amazon.de
"Andreas Thiele" <······@nospam.com> writes:
> > I ordered it from a Swedish internet bookstore, and they claimed
> > delivery within two weeks.
>
> I already got my preorder from amazon.de
No problems here, in NL.
ordered april 8 at amazon usa,
delivery was last wednesday april 13.
Cor
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Cor Gest <···@clsnet.nl> writes:
> No problems here, in NL.
> ordered april 8 at amazon usa,
> delivery was last wednesday april 13.
I live in Italy and I preordered "Practical Common Lisp" in August
2004, and am still waiting for it...
Paolo
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Recommended Common Lisp libraries/tools (see also http://clrfi.alu.org):
- ASDF/ASDF-INSTALL: system building/installation
- CL-PPCRE: regular expressions
- UFFI: Foreign Function Interface
On 2005-04-17 11:40:18 +0200, Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it> said:
> Cor Gest <···@clsnet.nl> writes:
>
>> No problems here, in NL.
>> ordered april 8 at amazon usa,
>> delivery was last wednesday april 13.
>
> I live in Italy and I preordered "Practical Common Lisp" in August
> 2004, and am still waiting for it...
>
>
> Paolo
I just looked at amazon.de where they say it takes about 2 weeks to get
the book.
But at amazon.fr they still have one exemplar in stock.
At amazon.co.uk they say the book takes 4 to 6 weeks to arrive.
Nils
Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it> writes:
> Cor Gest <···@clsnet.nl> writes:
>
>> No problems here, in NL.
>> ordered april 8 at amazon usa,
>> delivery was last wednesday april 13.
>
> I live in Italy and I preordered "Practical Common Lisp" in August
> 2004, and am still waiting for it...
I live in Germany and had to discover that Amazon somehow lost my
pre-order!
So I re-ordered on amazon.de and got the book within one week. You
might want to check if your pre-order is still active...
Frank
Frank Goenninger DG1SBG <················@t-online.de> writes:
> So I re-ordered on amazon.de and got the book within one week. You
> might want to check if your pre-order is still active...
The order has been fulfilled, the book is on its way.
Paolo
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Why Lisp? http://lisp.tech.coop/RtL%20Highlight%20Film
Recommended Common Lisp libraries/tools (see also http://clrfi.alu.org):
- ASDF/ASDF-INSTALL: system building/installation
- CL-PPCRE: regular expressions
- UFFI: Foreign Function Interface
Glen Able wrote:
> p.s. is the PCL book coming to Europe soon?
Received it today.
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Glen Able schrieb:
> This morning I found "Lisp in a Box". The home page makes it sound
> wonderfully simple. However, when I try to run the emacs tutorial as
> advised, the file appears to be missing. A bit more farting around
> trying to figure it out, and my c++ has finished compiling, so back to
> work.
Only a few days ago I asked Peter Seibel if he plans to include the
tutorials in his new version of "Lisp in a Box" and he confirmed on
that. Look at his PCL-site, I suppose he is working on a windows version.
Andr�
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