5.0405 Rs: LISP for Humanists; Next & DOS (4/51)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 21 Oct 1991 23:53:24 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0405. Monday, 21 Oct 1991.
(1) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 18:13:22 -0700 (13 lines)
From: olsen@csli.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Teaching Lisp to Humanists
(2) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 22:43 PDT (10 lines)
From: William Adelman <IZZYCX9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Dos Cdroms on the next
(3) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 10:16:05 EDT (11 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: LISP for Humanists
(4) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 15:28:03 EDT (17 lines)
From: allegre@ere.umontreal.ca (Allegre Christian)
Subject: Re: 5.0400 Qs: ... LISP
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 18:13:22 -0700
From: olsen@csli.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Teaching Lisp to Humanists
Jean Veronis asks if anyone has taught Lisp to humanists. I haven't done so
yet, but as a humanist who has studied Lisp and artificial intelligence, I
heartily recommend as a homework exercise having people tinker with some
variant of the Eliza program. In addition to being fun, it can help students
to overcome some of their awe of the computer. (Which for some reason reminds
me of the scene in "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy and friends discover the man
behind the curtain...)
--Diane L. Olsen (olsen@csli.stanford.edu)
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 22:43 PDT
From: William Adelman <IZZYCX9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Dos Cdroms on the next
Re B. Kraft's attempt to run dos cdroms on the Next -- I know
that Access PC is the software used to mount dos disks on mac
machines that that don't have supe rdrives. Perhaps they have a
version for the NextNext that would mount the cdrom drive.
W. Adelman (Izzycx9@oac.ucla.edu)
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 10:16:05 EDT
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: LISP for Humanists
A good text for teaching Lisp to Humanists is "Common Lisp: A Gentle
Introduction to Symbolic Computation" by David Touretzky, Benjamin Cummings
Publisher. A cheap Lisp for the Macintosh that we use here at Yale is
MacScheme, though I am not sure what the exact price is. However, MacScheme
doesn't go with the Touretzky text obviously. MacScheme is available from
Semantic Microsystems, 4470 S.W.Hall, Suite 340, Beaverton, Oregon, 97005. I
have no personal connection to the book or the program.
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 15:28:03 EDT
From: allegre@ere.umontreal.ca (Allegre Christian)
Subject: Re: 5.0400 Qs: DOS CDROMs on NexT; LISP; Germand dict. (3/39)
Following Jean Veronis' query about books on LISP, I want to mention that
for the PC I used a few years back a very good subset of Common Lisp called
PC SCHEME the last version of which is 3.0. Along with the software (which
was used at MIT for teaching LISP) a few good books were published. I will
dig them out if you like. I remember the title of one: The little Lisper.
Really well made. Excellent. For those of us of course who are not afraid of
nested parentheses...
Christian Allegre
allegre@ere.umontreal.ca