"Ian"  wrote in message
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> That post was so deep even I don't understand some of the
> interpretations of it. I'm sure someone's got some friends who can
> figure it out though.

*lol* To be honest I didn't follow all the nesting - but it LOOKED very
plausible!

>
> As for the Soduko solution, I've got a much more elegant solution in my
> head, but I've not written Lisp since I worked on a compiler 15 years
> ago, and the only Lisp interpreter I've got is written in Vax Macro, so
> I can't run it.
>
> Lisp is simply the god of all languages. Everyone (who survives their
> transatlantic flight with the bus controller software they wrote to
> drive the plane,) who graduates, should have to write Lisp for a couple
> of years. You just see things in a completely different way. It's the
> only language where you come back every six months and realise a more
> elegant solution.
>
Well it is one of the 'purer languages' but I have not had much exposure to
it except for a couple of projects where I was linking autocad to a windows
database ap.
Not a good introduction as the lisp underpinning an autocad drawing is about
the most tedious repetative code you could possibly read - but then that is
probably largely due to to the dll's that run the interpretation. I like the
purity of assembly language and have hand coded the odd routine here and
there - but of course in a 'gooey' world with 'I want that code writtten
YESTERDAY' deadlines it is a luxury that not too many project managers will
countenance unfortunately.


Phil




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