Comments on: Lisp, Why?, step #5 http://ave1.org/2019/lisp-why-step-5/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:02:20 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Mircea Popescu http://ave1.org/2019/lisp-why-step-5/#comment-253 Mircea Popescu Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:37:57 +0000 http://ave1.org/?p=283#comment-253 The whole idea behind lisp can be approximated by looking at ~any physics' teacher conversation with any kid ever. "How fast is the rock ?" "36." "Thirty-six whats ?!" "36 km/h" "What's that ?" "10 m/s" "And how heavy is it ?" "10" "10 <b>whats</b>?!" "10 kilograms" "So what's the energy ?" "Five hundred." "Five hundred <a href="http://trilema.com/2018/cu-cartile-pe-masa-un-fleac-l-au-ciuruit/#footnote_13_77911" rel="nofollow">whats</a>!" and so following. You want to add "hurr" and "durr" like kids add 7 pounds with 9 newtons to get 16 sieverts. One step away from the mess is indeed lists of strings -- rather than forcing upon the multiverse a strange assumption of <a href="http://trilema.com/2018/why-african-americans-can-never-excel-at-anything-relative-to-the-white-majority-they-cant-be-the-smartest-nor-the-poorest-nor-the-best-nor-the-neediest-nor-the-anything-else-est-not-ever/#comment-125072" rel="nofollow">monostring</a> you can just keep the various things apart. The next step is properly tagged data, such that the computer is permitted to share with you some reflection of the meaning intrinsic in the world. And so on. The whole idea behind lisp can be approximated by looking at ~any physics' teacher conversation with any kid ever. "How fast is the rock ?" "36." "Thirty-six whats ?!" "36 km/h" "What's that ?" "10 m/s" "And how heavy is it ?" "10" "10 whats?!" "10 kilograms" "So what's the energy ?" "Five hundred." "Five hundred whats!" and so following.

You want to add "hurr" and "durr" like kids add 7 pounds with 9 newtons to get 16 sieverts. One step away from the mess is indeed lists of strings -- rather than forcing upon the multiverse a strange assumption of monostring you can just keep the various things apart. The next step is properly tagged data, such that the computer is permitted to share with you some reflection of the meaning intrinsic in the world. And so on.

]]> By: Stanislav Datskovskiy http://ave1.org/2019/lisp-why-step-5/#comment-252 Stanislav Datskovskiy Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:03:02 +0000 http://ave1.org/?p=283#comment-252 Probably you already realized: there is no need to concatenate the strings (a very expensive operation anywhere) "in advance". If they're part of a WWWtron or similar, they're to be thrown into the outgoing socket or wherever in the correct order, when needed, all you need is to walk the list which points to them in the requisite order. Probably you already realized: there is no need to concatenate the strings (a very expensive operation anywhere) "in advance".

If they're part of a WWWtron or similar, they're to be thrown into the outgoing socket or wherever in the correct order, when needed, all you need is to walk the list which points to them in the requisite order.

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