Re: Symbolic programming for dummies

On May 7, 4:26 pm, rjf <fate...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are many ignorant people who voice opinions on many things.
If you search for articles on computer language popularity, you will
find many articles, suggesting that such previously popular languages
like Pascal, Java, Perl,  are dropping in some metric, whileLispmay
even be growing.  However, for building a computer algebra system,Lispis certainly common: e.g. Reduce, Axiom/Scratchpad, Macsyma/
Maxima,
and a host of experimental systems.

Hi, thanks for introducing me to Lisp. I read already several common-
lisp articles and have books from the library. I download common-lisp
software (or do they call them implementations? like the CLIPS and the
GNU CL) and I'm learning, I usually learn rather quickly and already
have translated some C++ and S+ codes (numerical) into Lisp, and it's
absolutely great, I really love the language and would invest more in
it. For symbolic I have tried out few things (still more to try and
learn), but I couldn't find the Norvig book, anyway I saw that he
published the codes (not the whole book of course) on his website so I
will read them from there. I also saw (by googling) that Richard
Fateman has a site with some lisp codes that simulate mathematica
(called mma) but I couldn't yet "compile them" using my GNU common-
lisp (GCL), actually I don't really know yet how to compile lisp files
into a program yet.

.

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