Posted in programming, lisp on December 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Once again I have found the best way to learn is to go to the source. If you really want to learn something you have to find dig into the implementation, read the classics and seek out the originators. In my quest to better understand the lisp I came across this C2 lisp resource with […]
Posted in lisp on November 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I found a small bug in the binary search described in Paul Graham’s book ‘ANSI Common Lisp’. When I wrote a few unit tests for the code snippet on page 60 I found that there is unbounded recursion when the item exists below the lower bound of the vector being searched. It’s really a small […]
Posted in python, software development, tabula rasa, lisp on October 10th, 2007 No Comments »
From the book Practical Common Lisp
“Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem.”
We have been recognizing a similar benefit on the server side of the MMO I […]