Books of Note

Practical Common
LispThe best intro to start your journey. Excellent coverage of CLOS.

ANSI Common
LispAnother great starting point with a different focus.

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence
ProgrammingA superb set of Lisp examples. Not just for the AI crowd.

Friday, February 17, 2006

God writes in Lisp 

I love Google. You find the most interesting things. I always had a hankering that if God were a programmer, he'd write in Lisp. Goncha explains in his Eternal Flame (Song of Lisp).

(As a side note, when you look at the information content in DNA, it's actually pretty clear that God is a programmer, if you'll allow for a bit of redundancy and unreachable code.)


Comments:


> ... God is a programmer, if you'll allow for a bit of redundancy and unreachable code.

Then again, God might just be following Alan J. Perlis' Epigram in Programming #21:

21. Optimization hinders evolution.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
 


God works in mysterious ways.

What's more mysterious than lisp?
 

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