On Mon 01 Apr 2019 at 06:46:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 01 April 2019 06:08:17 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:03:13PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > > d> I've been listening at this BS at the university as well. Until > > > > now d> I have not seen any practical or pragmatic use of this. I > > > > have d> worked with PL and prolog for a while ... unfortunately I > > > > think in d> coming years or decades it all will be declared dead > > > > ... when the d> true AI from China will take over :D :D :D > > > > > > > > I think that Lisp was used in AI because it was the best language > > > > you could find to code smart algorithms on... Figure implementing > > > > mapcar in assembler or FORTRAN :) > > > > > > I think also, but no one uses it except for emacs or some niche > > > programming. > > > > Do your reading before spewing nonsense: > > > > https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read > > > This would be a great read, if 90% of the text wasn't 90% white. What the > hell is wrong with good old black text?
Yes, to think of all the time wasted by so-called web designers when all I do with a page like that is press Ctrl-A Ctrl-C and paste it all into an emacs buffer with Shft-Insert. That way, I get to read it in *my* choice of font etc. If the page looks interesting and worth keeping, then I press Shft-Ctrl-% ! which doubles every Newline, and Escape 9999 Ctrl-Home which then runs fill-region on every paragraph before saving it. (These last two are the results of my "programming" ability in this over-blown editor, ie my ability to cut and paste other people's scraps. AFAIK no one, least of all User Services, was hurt in the production of this code.) Cheers, David.