Viewing profile — paul_reiners

I don't think it is, but I saw a test case here claiming it is: http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/program...

Is the following list car-circular?: (((1 2 3)) 4 . #7=(((5 . #7#)))) If so, why?

A watched kettle never boils.

They concentrate on algorithms. Good for them. That is how it should be taught.

* Sherlock Holmes: Because he was the coolest guy ever, even if he was fictional. * Bobby Fischer: The world had never seen such monomania before and probably never will again. (Of…

Read "Smart & Gets Things Done" by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/05.html

That's exactly it. Saying that learning a new language is just a matter of learning a new syntax is like saying that an English-speaking, non-German speaker could translate a Germa…

I've noticed that the most effective way to get a programming project finished is to just let everything else slide for a few weeks: paying bills, exercising, being social. Probabl…

That's a compliment, right?

People always like talking about what they're working on.

I can't get any speed-up by using declarations. If anyone does, please let me know.

Right now I'm in the middle of a study group that I started here at work. We're studying Graham's book "ANSI Common Lisp" and studying inference in particular, so we're also coveri…

Sarosh, Thanks! I know about Csound, but I've never actually used it. Lately I've been playing around with Common Music, which is written in Lisp and has a Lisp API. Now that Mathe…

Here's an article I wrote on the same topic: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-camusic/ They did an excellent job with WolframTones. Mathematica is a powerful langua…

Eric Raymond is an excellent writer and you can't go wrong reading this article. Also, learn how to do mathematical proofs. I don't know what the best way to do this is. I learned …

Has anyone else worked on exercise 13.3(b) in "ANSI Common Lisp"? I approached it by declaring all the variables in Figure 9.2 as long-floats: ; Use declarations in math utilities:…

Actually, I take back my statement that this is not set-theoretic union. If I'm willing to accept '(a a) as representing the set '(a) when I use it as an input to union, I should b…