From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T00:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy)

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... I believe the question was in regards to implementing factorial in a
tail-recursive manner.

I believe the statement was:

"I'm a complete newb to lisp, I've been reading Practical Common Lisp & On
Lisp.  I've also been working through "The little schemer" and SICP... I'm
running CMUCL under SLIME & Emacs (v21.4). ( phew ) ... I've written an
iterative & a normally recursive version of factorial ... Now I'm trying to
figure out how to implement it in a tail-recursive fashion ... can anybody
help me write a tail-recursive version ?? I'm not familiar with the call
pattern yet." ...

or something like that ...

j.

On 12/23/05, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Actually, the one comparison that gets touched on a bit too lightly ...
> is
> > the community...
>
> > ( Heh, and if you want an even stronger contrast, try asking simple
> > questions in a lisp irc channel ... I've never had soo many people say
> "We
> > aren't going to help you with your homework" ... ( I'm 30+ and have bee=
n
> a
> > pro dev for about 10 of that ... sorry, it's *NOT* homework ). )
>
> I'd be really curious about what you asked there. :-)
>
> > Anyways, really it all comes down to community, and I believe there is
> NO
> > other programming language with a community that is so nice to people
> and/or
> > easy to get along with ( even when there is strong disagreement ).
>
> > Jeff Wood
> --
> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
>
>


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Jeff Wood

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