From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 6:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D42414C01; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 06:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12DTIS-000M5Q-00; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:19:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA31532; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:19:43 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:19:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wes@softweyr.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/13644 In-Reply-To: <20000125212945.A49680@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: >[ -hackers ==> -chat ] > >On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:55:28PM -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: >> >> > I don't know anybody under the age of 30 who knows lisp. And, frankly, >> > since both the system and virtually all of its support programs are > >It's still taught in csc324... Lisp and Prolog. I'll be learning intros to both in my Programming Language Concepts course this semester. The prof says Lisp is inefficient on von Neumann machines, and that has limited its popularity. But emacs' use of Lisp intrigues me. It is obviously a very powerful editor, and extensible. I would love to learn more. And i used to have stonybrook prolog for the amiga. It fit on 2 880k floppies! -=> jm <=- "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... Revel in your time!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message