Re: Lisp Thesaurus
- From: "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Apr 2005 15:37:37 -0700
Nikhil Ketkar wrote:
> When I need to have some functionality first thing I do is try to
find
> if Lisp already has something similar built in. I have to spend a lot
> of time doing this.
> The Common Lisp HyperSpec is useful but it has a dictionary way of
> organizing the information.What I would like to have is to have
> information organised like thesaurus where I start looking for what I
> want to do and get the constructs relevant to it. Consider a trival
> example, I have to write a simple program that uses Huffman encoding
to
> compress a file. For this I would need to operate at a bit level. I
> need to know what constructs Lisp has to get the job done.
The best thing about Paul Graham's ANSI CL book is the reference in the
back, which seems to be what you want.
I thought Peter's book should have one too, but I guess the reason for
not including it was competition with the upcoming Margolies book.
.
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