Hi Amirouche, thanks for these nice words! 2016-02-05 19:55 GMT+01:00 Amirouche Boubekki <amirou...@hypermove.net>:
> > I skimmed over the book and it's really good, my take away: > > - I should probably study better how you introduce match > I have to admit that I've rushed off with the patern matcher rather quickly, but I hope that the equivalent formulations without the "match" will suffice as an explanation. If you have any specific questions or remarks, I'd be eager to answer them > - I learned new ways to create specification and apply algorithms > - The subject is *very* interesting > > Also maybe to make the book even more interesting for people that want > to decide between s/scheme/guile (!) and R: add extra illustrations for > each chapter. I think it would be great. I've put some plots here and there, but certainly illustrations would appeal to imagination and let the mind relax a little. > It can be nice to have more examples of what a particular > algorithm can be used for. I mean exercices without solution (yet). > This is a very good idea. Solutions could also be put at the end of the book later. I also thought about adding an appendix regarding the hygienic macros and those syntax extensions that were used with the sample code, so maybe I will add it later (I decided to try to prepare a talk for this year's European Lisp Symposium, so I will probably be a bit busy in the upcomming two weeks) A chapter about Natural Language Processing/Understading would have been > extra nice, but I'm not sure it's doable in this format. > > Well, I agree that it's an extremely interesting topic, but also very broad indeed, and it is a little unclear what the goals shoud be. I recenntly saw Richard Gabriel's keynote talk from ELS 2014 and it was very inspiring: http://medias.ircam.fr/x03b42f Perhaps it would be instructive to implement an Inform 7-alike programming language that would translate to Scheme. It would be pretty much in the spirit of the pamphlet. > All the best! > Thanks, take care!
