25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
7:20 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>wrote:
On 24/10/11 6:28 PM, jim s wrote:
I haven't had the pleasure of programming in Lisp. But while in school,
during the mid 70's, my first Comp.Sci project was in AI. It wasn't that big
of a topic there yet - but the Math Dept chairman egged me on. I was already
taking Electronics, and so my big hobby was robotics, and this was right in
line. As best as I can remember we didn't have Lisp on our system, I used
Fortran to build a cognitive speech program (in text only--no audio). Where
it would understand english language grammar, rather than blurt out canned
responses -- as in Eliza. Ever since watching 2001 Space Odyssey(and Star
Trek ToS), it was challenging to get the system to converse with you.
R.I.P John McCarthy
=Dan
From a friend who took his lisp course:
(cons (cons R I) P)
That's not a list; ityfm (in Scheme dialect):
(cons 'R (cons 'I (cons 'P '())))