lisppets http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/ Lisp Snippets en Vassil Nikolov Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:36:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss A Collection of Personal Web Pages of Computer Scientists and Mathematicians http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/a-collection-of-personal-web-pages-of-computer-scientists-and-mathematicians <p> A good friend, Boyko Bantchev, has compiled <a href="http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/links/people.html">a collection of personal web pages of computer scientists and mathematicians</a>; among them are Abelson, Baker, Gabriel, Graham, Greenspun, McCarthy, Norvig, Pitman, and Stallman (to mention just those who are directly related to the topic of this site; there are many others equally or more prominent). </p> http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/a-collection-of-personal-web-pages-of-computer-scientists-and-mathematicians#comments http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/a-collection-of-personal-web-pages-of-computer-scientists-and-mathematicians Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:36:00 GMT A Variation on a Nursery Rhyme http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/a-variation-on-a-nursery-rhyme <p> Humpty-Dumpty to Lisp was in thrall,<br/> Humpty-Dumpty played with <code>eval</code> and <code>funcall</code>.<br/> All the King's conses on the royal PDP-10<br/> Couldn't intern Humpty-Dumpty again.<br/> </p> <p> By the way, did you know that there is a <a href="http://google.com/search?q=%22Humpty-Dumpty%22+%22LISP+1.5%22"> Humpty-Dumpty reference in the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual</a>? </p> http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/a-variation-on-a-nursery-rhyme#comments http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/a-variation-on-a-nursery-rhyme Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:03:00 GMT The Inverse of A Famous Equation http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/the-inverse-of-a-famous-equation <!-- <p>The type of <code>(/ (log -1) (sqrt -1))</code>.</p> --> <p>Happy New Year!</p> <p>Even if you have seen this before, I&nbsp;hope you will admire the quality of a good numeric implementation:</p> <pre> [1]&gt; (/ (log -1) (sqrt -1)) 3.1415927 [2]&gt; (typep * 'real) T </pre> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/the-inverse-of-a-famous-equation#comments http://lispnyc.org:80/blog/lisppets/the-inverse-of-a-famous-equation Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:37:17 GMT