Re: Lisp, 50th Birthday

Pascal Costanza wrote:
Ken Tilton wrote:


Pascal Costanza wrote:
Ken Tilton wrote:

You don't like spinning letters? I recall a gasp from the audience.


Ah yes, that sounds particularly interesting for real-world applications.

You are no fun.

How about the dataflow into, across, and back out of the RDF triple store? You don't think more reliable real-world systems would arise from that?

(defvar *some-list* '(5 4 3 2 1))

(defvar *sum* (reduce #'+ *some-list*))
(defvar *length* (length *some-list*))
(defvar *avg* (/ *sum* *length*))

(push 6 *some-list*)

Modifying literal data? Hmmmm ...


=> *sum* *length* *avg* ?

(push 7 *some-list*)

=> *sum* *length* *avg* ?

(push 8 *some-list*)

=> *sum* *length* *avg* ?


Especially: How long will this take? In each turn? What about very large lists?


Pascal

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