We just finished learning about LISP in my college programming languages class. It's a functional programming language developed in 1959 as an alternative to imperative languages like FORTRAN, which didn't support LISt Processing.
LISP was designed at MIT for AI research, and was at the forefront of functional programming. LISP is based on Lambda Calculus and is controlled via recursion and conditional expressions.
Common LISP is a contemporary version of LISP available for UNIX and Windows systems (Debian users $ apt-get install clisp )
But does Intel really have enough supply to meet the demand?
I remember not too long ago when my mother took me computer shopping with her (I hate being the consultant for the house) and we went to the local Gateway Country (there's just something about those cow patterned boxes). I asked one of the sales people if I could get an AMD board instead of the standard PIII (that was advertised in big bold letters over everything). Regardless of which board is better, I knew that my mother was not putting a heavy load on her system, and would appreciate the extra bucks an AMD chip could save her.
The salesperson responded with some crass line about AMD not being able to produce chips fast enough to meet Gateway's demands. Then the other day on TV, I notice Gateway advertising a new system, delivered to your door, complete with Athlon technology. Somehow, the humor was lost on my mother.
--jason
(btw-My mother did end up getting a PIII 600 system from Gateway. She had the money, and I'd rather just have Gateway deal with her serious problems. I still get a big kick out of how well my PII 300 system with only 96MB of SDRAM, running Debian Linux, out-performs her brand new Windows98 machine.)
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LISP was designed at MIT for AI research, and was at the forefront of functional programming. LISP is based on Lambda Calculus and is controlled via recursion and conditional expressions.
Common LISP is a contemporary version of LISP available for UNIX and Windows systems (Debian users $ apt-get install clisp )
--jason
I remember not too long ago when my mother took me computer shopping with her (I hate being the consultant for the house) and we went to the local Gateway Country (there's just something about those cow patterned boxes). I asked one of the sales people if I could get an AMD board instead of the standard PIII (that was advertised in big bold letters over everything). Regardless of which board is better, I knew that my mother was not putting a heavy load on her system, and would appreciate the extra bucks an AMD chip could save her.
The salesperson responded with some crass line about AMD not being able to produce chips fast enough to meet Gateway's demands. Then the other day on TV, I notice Gateway advertising a new system, delivered to your door, complete with Athlon technology. Somehow, the humor was lost on my mother.
--jason
(btw-My mother did end up getting a PIII 600 system from Gateway. She had the money, and I'd rather just have Gateway deal with her serious problems. I still get a big kick out of how well my PII 300 system with only 96MB of SDRAM, running Debian Linux, out-performs her brand new Windows98 machine.)