From a friend who took his lisp course: (cons (cons R I) P) On 10/24/2011 2:27 PM, St?phane Tsacas wrote:

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>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

On 25/10/11 11:21 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: If there was one thing I could change about how I learned programming - it would be to have learned Lisp at the time I began learning C. (Before that was mostly BASIC and 6502/Z80 assembler, like you.) --Toby