Ok, great & thx.
I am frustrated with a few things as I progress down my learning path. Frustration is, of course, usual and unavoidable when learning a new language. It appears to me that the effect is amplified by the fact that lisp = paradigm shift relative to algol / c languages, which is my background.
Anyway, here is my query:
Where should one go to ask *dumb* lisp questions?
I have looked at comp.lang.lisp but it is sooooo full of spam that I don't know what to do about it. I have tried various news readers, but the spam filtering is either poor, or the documentation on setting up spam filtering is *incomprehensible*. The Google Groups archive is likewise full of spam-shit. Maybe I should ignore the spam and forge ahead?
I could give examples of problems I am having, but I don't thing including them in this post is appropriate.
Any suggestions? IRC or something? Does the toronto-lisp list deal with simple techical/newbie questions?
TIA.
- Dave -
Hi David,
While this list isn't typically used for simple technical questions, I don't see why it couldn't be. I myself wouldn't mind answering questions or providing guidance where I am able to.
Justin
On 25-Sep-09, at 4:52 PM, David Penton wrote:
Ok, great & thx.
I am frustrated with a few things as I progress down my learning path. Frustration is, of course, usual and unavoidable when learning a new language. It appears to me that the effect is amplified by the fact that lisp = paradigm shift relative to algol / c languages, which is my background.
Anyway, here is my query:
Where should one go to ask *dumb* lisp questions?
I have looked at comp.lang.lisp but it is sooooo full of spam that I don't know what to do about it. I have tried various news readers, but the spam filtering is either poor, or the documentation on setting up spam filtering is *incomprehensible*. The Google Groups archive is likewise full of spam-shit. Maybe I should ignore the spam and forge ahead?
I could give examples of problems I am having, but I don't thing including them in this post is appropriate.
Any suggestions? IRC or something? Does the toronto-lisp list deal with simple techical/newbie questions?
TIA.
- Dave -
toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp
I second that. I think technical questions are entirely appropriate on this list.. indeed, they should be welcomed.
comp.lang.lisp really is doing poorly these days. I wish there was a better "central Lisp hangout" -- something like arclanguage.org/forum, but for Lisp generally, not just a specific dialect.
Vish
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Justin Giancola justin.giancola@gmail.com wrote:
Hi David,
While this list isn't typically used for simple technical questions, I don't see why it couldn't be. I myself wouldn't mind answering questions or providing guidance where I am able to.
Justin
On 25-Sep-09, at 4:52 PM, David Penton wrote:
Ok, great & thx.
I am frustrated with a few things as I progress down my learning path. Frustration is, of course, usual and unavoidable when learning a new language. It appears to me that the effect is amplified by the fact that lisp = paradigm shift relative to algol / c languages, which is my background.
Anyway, here is my query:
Where should one go to ask *dumb* lisp questions?
I have looked at comp.lang.lisp but it is sooooo full of spam that I don't know what to do about it. I have tried various news readers, but the spam filtering is either poor, or the documentation on setting up spam filtering is *incomprehensible*. The Google Groups archive is likewise full of spam-shit. Maybe I should ignore the spam and forge ahead?
I could give examples of problems I am having, but I don't thing including them in this post is appropriate.
Any suggestions? IRC or something? Does the toronto-lisp list deal with simple techical/newbie questions?
TIA.
- Dave -
toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp
toronto-lisp mailing list toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/toronto-lisp
Vishvajit Singh wrote:
comp.lang.lisp really is doing poorly these days. I wish there was a better "central Lisp hangout" -- something like arclanguage.org/forum, but for Lisp generally, not just a specific dialect.
There's a website called lispforum.com I think. It wasn't bad and it covered Scheme, CL, Emacs-Lisp and I *think* it covered Clojure as well, however, whatever you posted had to be approved by a forum admin. I'm not sure if that's changed or if that was a restriction for newly created accounts.
I'm amazed at how low the quality of c.l.l. is now. Last year there was hardly any spam and now it seems as if every other message is spam. Blame Google Groups? :-/
-Rudolf
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