lisp and youtube

Jimka

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Dec 25, 2006, 7:27:57 AM12/25/06

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did anyone see the lisp video on youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GP9W1OowE

Guillaume Cartier

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Dec 25, 2006, 9:25:12 AM12/25/06

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Loved it lol

First time I saw a Lisp program, more than 20 years ago, a chess
program that a friend showed me, all the parenthesis made such a big
impression on me that afterwards I was under the impression that Lisp
programs where composed of *only* parenthesis! I could not understand
how you could write such a powerful chess program using only two
symbols, so I got the wonderful Little Lisper book and... it was love
at first sight :)

Juan R.

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Dec 25, 2006, 9:34:51 AM12/25/06

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Jimka ha escrito:

> did anyone see the lisp video on youtube?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GP9W1OowE

funny, but i think (s)he is mixing lips (oops LISP) with Dyck language
((()()())())

Barry Margolin

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Dec 25, 2006, 12:15:48 PM12/25/06

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In article <1167056712.1...@n51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"Guillaume Cartier" <gcar...@jazzscheme.org> wrote:

> Loved it lol
>
> First time I saw a Lisp program, more than 20 years ago, a chess
> program that a friend showed me, all the parenthesis made such a big
> impression on me that afterwards I was under the impression that Lisp
> programs where composed of *only* parenthesis! I could not understand
> how you could write such a powerful chess program using only two
> symbols, so I got the wonderful Little Lisper book and... it was love
> at first sight :)

My first time, it looked like it was just parens and "LAMBDA NIL", which
made it seem like a totally foreign language (at the time I knew BASIC,
Fortran, and PDP-8 Assembler). This was nearly 30 years ago, and the
coding style of the program I looked at was incredibly archaic (all the
LAMBDAs were because it predated LET, I presume).

>
> On Dec 25, 7:27 am, "Jimka" <j...@rdrop.com> wrote:
> > did anyone see the lisp video on
> > youtube?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GP9W1OowE

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