On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:25:24 -0700 (PDT), Francogrex <······@grex.org>
wrote:
>Is this one of the most difficult CL books to read or what? I have
>read without a lot of trouble other books including Seibel's
>"Practical Common Lisp" and Graham's "on lisp" and "ansi common lisp";
>but for Norvig's PAIP I have to read each page at least three times
>and still don't get most of what he's saying. It's a pity that it's so
>advanced/difficult because it's such a darn good book.
You may wish to take a look at the following related book report:
"Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in
Common Lisp by Peter Norvig: A Book Report," by Earl Spillar
http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/abqlispscheme/archives/Earl.Spillar-Paradigms_of_Artificial_Intelligence.pdf
According to the last slide in this presentation (slide 20),
> More focused on AI than Practical Common Lisp
Perhaps it is the AI-related portions that are troubling you, not the
Common Lisp-related ones. In a way, you may perhaps be comparing
apples and oranges.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:25:24 -0700 (PDT), Francogrex <······@grex.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Is this one of the most difficult CL books to read or what? I have
> > read without a lot of trouble other books including Seibel's
> > "Practical Common Lisp" and Graham's "on lisp" and "ansi common lisp";
> > but for Norvig's PAIP I have to read each page at least three times
> > and still don't get most of what he's saying. It's a pity that it's so
> > advanced/difficult because it's such a darn good book.
>
> You may wish to take a look at the following related book report:
>
> "Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in
> Common Lisp by Peter Norvig: A Book Report," by Earl Spillar
> http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/abqlispscheme/archives/Earl.Spillar-Paradigms_of_Artificial_Intelligence.pdf
>
> According to the last slide in this presentation (slide 20),
>
> > More focused on AI than Practical Common Lisp
>
> Perhaps it is the AI-related portions that are troubling you, not the
> Common Lisp-related ones.
It was not until slide 20 that it dawned on you that
"Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming" is about
artificial intelligence.
You were made for CommuneLisp.
On 17 Mar 2009 09:01:52 GMT, "William James" <·········@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:25:24 -0700 (PDT), Francogrex <······@grex.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Is this one of the most difficult CL books to read or what? I have
>> > read without a lot of trouble other books including Seibel's
>> > "Practical Common Lisp" and Graham's "on lisp" and "ansi common lisp";
>> > but for Norvig's PAIP I have to read each page at least three times
>> > and still don't get most of what he's saying. It's a pity that it's so
>> > advanced/difficult because it's such a darn good book.
>>
>> You may wish to take a look at the following related book report:
>>
>> "Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in
>> Common Lisp by Peter Norvig: A Book Report," by Earl Spillar
>> http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/abqlispscheme/archives/Earl.Spillar-Paradigms_of_Artificial_Intelligence.pdf
>>
>> According to the last slide in this presentation (slide 20),
>>
>> > More focused on AI than Practical Common Lisp
>>
>> Perhaps it is the AI-related portions that are troubling you, not the
>> Common Lisp-related ones.
>
>It was not until slide 20 that it dawned on you that
>"Paradigms of Aritificial Intelligence Programming" is about
>artificial intelligence.
>
>You were made for CommuneLisp.
<shrugs and looks upward>
Actually, I realized that on the first slide, but was trying to find
if there was any reason that PAIP, in particular, seemed difficult to
Francogrex. Not finding any, I defaulted to my initial conclusion,
which happened to be stated in a nutshell on slide 20.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
--
Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com
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Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725
"Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto."
-- Matsuo Basho^