Re: Just can't hear enough about Cells?

Ken Tilton wrote:


Jacques Chester wrote:
Ken Tilton wrote:

Ok, but he got it from reading my doc, examples, Usenet articles, so...?



Sure, but I still got more out of that presentation than
the stuff I've looked at.
[...]
Yes? No?

kenny

That was good, but it doesn't come it first thing on
the website. Perhaps you could start with the story of
your dad's spread*** - the bald "it's like spread***
cells" confused me. Did it mean:

* I was going to refer to each cell using fairly easy to
mix up row-and-column references?
* What a given cell could do was pretty limited?
* That I'd need to use another paradigm anyway, given
the limitations of spreadsheets? (see also: zillions of
Excel files doing - poorly - the work best given to a
proper RBMS)

I think it may be helpful to look for or develop more
examples, and possibly to intersperse some concept-level
pseudocode with the Lisp examples. Some examples might
include:

* Ye olde transactions example of the debit/credit between
two accounts
* Modelling complicated physical systems where several
things are happening simultaneously
* A thermostat - both "big bang" and gradient; I understand
this is the canonical engineering example.


Now in fairness to you, I am YACLI, Yet Another Common
Lisp Ignoramus, though I'm currently ploughing through
Peter Seibel's book.

Which raises the question: is that I misunderstood? Or
that I just suck a grepping unfamiliar Lisp code?

Cheers,

JC.
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