On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:18:41AM -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
My biggest complaint with LISP and LISP learning materials in particular was this: the materials show examples of how to write programs to compute Fibonnacci numbers, or primes, or how to write a LISP interpreter.
However, they don't show you how to write a program to (for example) sort a file and write it back to disk - or to act as a terminal program - or how to interact with a SQL database - or how to read from the passwrod file. In short, anything that interacts with the outside world is ignored by such luminaries as Winston and Horn's LISP book.
Welcome, How about a web-based MP3 browser with Shoutcast server? Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Also available in dead-tree form very soon. (Also, http://www.cliki.net/, a CL Wiki, and http://www.common-lisp.net/, a sourceforge-alike for useful CL projects.) -bcd -- *** Brian Downing <bdowning at lavos dot net>