On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:11:10PM -0600, LeAnthony Mathews wrote: > I'm a nurse manager in a busy hospital unit with lots of staff. My > programming background is pascal, VBasic, and php. A few years ago > I just happen to be in the medical library and found a copy of David > S. Touretzky "Common LISP - A gentle introduction to symbolic > computation." It changed my procedural worldview to a functional > one. I dabbled in LISP very little over the years, but managing a > unit of many nursing staff brought it back into the forefront. I > don't know if any of you have heard of the Nursing-scheduling > problem. It falls into the same category is the Traveling salesman > problem, they are both in the NP-complete class.
Ahh, the Traveling Salesman program. A problem near-and-dear to my heart. I played with that one Christmas, and developed an algorithm to solve it in linear time, which is unfortunately too large to fit in this email. All kidding aside, welcome aboard! (And I really have played with the Traveling Salesman program. :) -- Larry p.s. Thanks for adding yourself to the Frappr page! _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
