Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle

2011-07-12 Thread fortunatus
I think the problem with so-called "forward looking" or "highest level" languages is that they tend to become domain specific. What Lispers are always saying is construct your own high level language out of your favorite Lisp. Of course no one else will use it then, or even discuss it, unless you

Re: SunLisp III: Lisp jobs and beer in Ft Lauderdale

2011-02-08 Thread fortunatus
Are you using your qooxlisp thingy? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A portable LISP interpreter that includes all the major list-processing functions is described. A complete, annotated listing of the program's code, written in PASCAL, is included.

2010-08-05 Thread fortunatus
On Jul 24, 6:42 pm, Emmy Noether wrote: > I have already spent 4 hours scanning/processing to a stage where I > got a decent OCR which needs hand-verification of pages. I need 4 or 8 > volunteers depending on whether one want to do two pages each or 1 > page each. Its an hour of joyful work each f

Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

2010-06-16 Thread fortunatus
On Jun 14, 3:34 pm, Raymond Toy wrote: > There was even one example where the C compiler made spectacularly bad > code.  I only needed 6 pointer registers (the arch has 8), but the > compiler decided to use only one or two and spilled and reloaded them > from the stack for each use.  Yay! That's

Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

2010-06-14 Thread fortunatus
One point that might be interesting, you do include C++ in your post. Therefore some compare/contrast of C++ class member function invocation rate versus Lisp object method invocation rate might be meaningful. I'm sure if you Google back through comp.lang.lisp you will find plenty on it already. -

Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

2010-06-14 Thread fortunatus
For crying out loud, the best any compiler can do is make optimal machine language. Many C compilers can do that over most inputs. So can many Lisp compilers if you give the right type data. So it's a moot point. The only point to discuss would be that Scheme - in the R5 version of the spec at

Re: C interpreter in Lisp/scheme/python

2010-06-14 Thread fortunatus
On Jun 13, 7:07 pm, bolega wrote: > I am trying to compare LISP/Scheme/Python for their expressiveness. > > For this, I propose a vanilla C interpreter. I have seen a book which > writes C interpreter in C. > > The criteria would be the small size and high readability of the code. > > Are there al

Re: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?

2010-06-10 Thread fortunatus
On Jun 10, 8:24 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > What applets?  Have you ever seen a java applet?  Last time I saw one > it must have been fifteen years ago. I have a Java applet that I use for GUI front end on some of my Lisp work - when HTML forms and pages aren't eno

Re: Math Notations, Computer Languages, and the “F orm” in Formalism

2009-09-08 Thread fortunatus
On Sep 7, 3:06 pm, Xah Lee wrote: ... > • systems for displaying math, such as TeX, Mathematica, MathML, > should be unified as part of the computer language's syntax. ... > ☄ to that end you might be interested in Fortress at Sun: http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community http://researc

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread fortunatus
On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: > Why would you fill your website with junk? The OP made it clear: >Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list