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by chuchana
Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:17 am
Forum: Books and Resources
Topic: On Lisp
Replies: 0
Views: 20281

On Lisp

Paul Graham's Book "On Lisp" is available with the figures that are missing from the version from his homepage : repository / pdf . The maintainer has also fixed some typos and added formatting, and I have added a file with the Errata from PG's homepage and corrected some of them. Others s...
by chuchana
Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:44 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The New Lisp Machine
Replies: 3
Views: 12341

Re: The New Lisp Machine

There's Mezzano, but it is work in progress. You can try a Virtual Box image, though.
by chuchana
Wed May 20, 2015 12:27 am
Forum: Homework
Topic: my-union (Touretzky / exercise 8.52.)
Replies: 4
Views: 13977

Re: my-union (Touretzky / exercise 8.52.)

Thank you for your detailed explanation! I started with Practical Common Lisp, but I went to this book when I was not sure about something and I stayed with it because of the exercises.

- pascal
by chuchana
Tue May 12, 2015 12:17 pm
Forum: Homework
Topic: my-union (Touretzky / exercise 8.52.)
Replies: 4
Views: 13977

my-union (Touretzky / exercise 8.52.)

Not really homework, but because of the kind of question I guess this is probably the right place: I am going through Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. In exercise 8.52., I do not understand why the solution in the book uses a helper function. The book's solution: (defun my...