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Forum => Anything else we might add? => Topic started by: newdep on April 14, 2007, 12:54:17 PM

Poll
Question: What function 'name' do you like most in newlisp
Option 1: curry votes: 2
Option 2: flat votes: 0
Option 3: lambda votes: 2
Option 4: intersect votes: 0
Option 5: transpose votes: 0
Option 6: floor votes: 0
Option 7: bayes-train votes: 1
Option 8: seed votes: 0
Option 9: explode votes: 2
Option 10: pretty-print votes: 0
Title: What function 'name' do you like most in newlisp
Post by: newdep on April 14, 2007, 12:54:17 PM
I was walking through the history of newlisp releases and found some

funny and good naming of fnuctions in newlisp, its just out of intrest,

but what function name do you like most in newlisp? (So thats purely the

name not the behavior..)



I just put a few on the list.. append you own if you like.. ;-)



Norman.
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Post by: pjot on April 15, 2007, 09:28:23 PM
I like 'unify' the most, but it isn't in your list ;-)



Peter
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Post by: Ryon on April 16, 2007, 02:00:02 PM
I be a tall-ship sailor, so I likes float. But me fav'rit words be args!
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Post by: rickyboy on April 16, 2007, 02:10:50 PM
What about the ones that belong in a bad science fiction novel?



"I am Erf from the planet Betai -- take me to your leader!"



:-)  --Ricky
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Post by: cormullion on April 17, 2007, 10:23:53 AM
one thing i like about newlisp is that most of the functions have sensible names, and only a few are bizarre distortions. So it's easier to say the ones I like less: cpymem, crit-chi2, irr, ifft, etc. I don't like 'lambda' but that's only because my brain has managed to associate it with feelings of mental inadequacy - but I happily use 'fn', so that's just irrational.



I like 'bayes-train' the best. I always imagine a Victorian toddler playing with toy trains with words on the carriages and later going on to invent some cool statistical thing. (Although the pedantic will be quick to point out that the Reverend Thomas Bayes would probably not have been able to play with trains, since he died in 1761.)
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Post by: HPW on April 17, 2007, 10:45:06 AM
I like list most, because everything in lisp/newLISP is based on it.

No barriers/difference between code and data.

It stand for the name: 'ListProcessing'

But non-lisper thinks: 'Lots of insane and stupid paranthesis'



;-)
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Post by: newdep on April 17, 2007, 12:23:42 PM
hahahahaha... Erf from BetaI.....
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Post by: newdep on April 17, 2007, 12:25:27 PM
..Args like in "arguments with a sailor" ? Ryon ;-)
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Post by: Jeff on April 17, 2007, 04:06:34 PM
Could be worse, Cormullion.  newLISP doesn't have CAADDDR :)
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Post by: Ryon on April 17, 2007, 04:24:02 PM
Quote from: "newdep"..Args like in "arguments with a sailor" ? Ryon ;-)

Args like in "Aaaarrrrrghhh!" ye scurvy bilge-drinkin' tar-merchant.
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Post by: cormullion on April 17, 2007, 11:24:24 PM
Quote from: "Ryon"
Quote from: "newdep"..Args like in "arguments with a sailor" ? Ryon ;-)

Args like in "Aaaarrrrrghhh!" ye scurvy bilge-drinkin' tar-merchant.


who let the doargs out?
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Post by: cormullion on April 17, 2007, 11:31:01 PM
Quote from: "Jeff"Could be worse, Cormullion.  newLISP doesn't have CAADDDR :)


I miss all of them:



caar, cadr, cdar, cddr, caaar, caadr, cadar, caddr, cdaar, cdadr, cddar, cdddr, caaaar, caaadr, caadar, caaddr, cadaar, cadadr, caddar, cadddr, cdaaar, cdaadr, cdadar, cdaddr, cddaar, cddadr, cdddar, cddddr



:-)
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Post by: newdep on April 18, 2007, 12:47:31 AM
So actualy reading all this, we should be able to write a nice story using the

newlisp-focabulary..



Starting like..



Once there was this 'primitive? called 'Erf from 'Betai. 'while a 'seek on the 'map

did not return a 'symbol? of 'true he was forced to 'catch the 'first 'bayes-train

to 'Lambda 'and 'lookup the 'atom?, a 'member called 'ifft from the 'flat 'lambda-macro 'constant,

and 'repeat him to 'join the 'curry of 'define....
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Post by: rickyboy on April 19, 2007, 07:52:33 PM
Quote from: "newdep"Once there was this 'primitive? called 'Erf from 'Betai. 'while a 'seek on the 'map did not return a 'symbol? of 'true he was forced to 'catch the 'first 'bayes-train to 'Lambda 'and 'lookup the 'atom?, a 'member called 'ifft from the 'flat 'lambda-macro 'constant, and 'repeat him to 'join the 'curry of 'define....

That was great, Norman!  Reminded me of Lewis Carroll: "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe ..."  Rock on!  :-)  --Ricky
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Post by: newdep on April 20, 2007, 01:00:59 AM
aiii I just see that 'repeat is not newLisp ;-)



would then be..

...and 'quote him to 'join the 'curry of 'define....
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Post by: rickyboy on April 20, 2007, 03:31:16 AM
Quote from: "newdep"...and 'quote him to 'join the 'curry of 'define....

... or "and push him to join the curry of define...."



Again Norman, it's brilliant -- keep up the good work!  --Ricky
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