What Language for a kid
Ric Werme
ric at wermenh.com
Wed Dec 30 13:33:42 EST 2015
Alan Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can't resist. There is always lisp. No indentation. No semicolons. Format it so that it makes sense to you. Anyone approaching algebra will get the bonus of learning that parentheses must match.
> I will second the beauty of the simplicity of Lisp. Unfortunately, I don't know of much in the way of practical application of Lisp outside AI researchers... back in my college days at least. No ideal what AI folks use most commonly now.
I think Bill was just kidding.... It takes a weird enough brain to think like
a computer, it takes an even weirder brain to think in Lisp. OTOH, I've
never tried too hard. It would be nice to write some real Elisp from time
to time.
PostScript is a Lisp variant. It has some nice visual output.
Oh dear, I can't find my best (only?) PostScript program. A .pdf variant is
at http://www.gpsy.com/gpsinfo/utmgrid.pdf but they didn't save the .ps
version. (pdf2ps doesn't do what I hoped....)
I see the PostScript slide rule program is still around, see
http://www.sciencephotography.com/andy/postscript.htm
-Ric
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