Object-Oriented Common Lisp, Stephen Slade, Prentice Hall
I started with this book too and while it is an excellent reference book I didn't like it much to learn Lisp from. I'd advise using the book by Norvig I mentioned above or ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham (the man who wrote store.yahoo.com in Lisp and then sold it to Yahoo for $48 million) if you're interested in learning Lisp. There's also a nice on-line book by David B. Lamkins: Succesful Lisp
(LISP is the language of symbolic programming, and though I'd rather do my stuff in C*, it does cater to AI programming.)
I'd prefer to do my stuff in Lisp;-) Just to help a common myth out of the world: Lisp is not just an AI language. It is a general purpose language useful for pretty much anything.
Like I tried to say but did not as I see now, sorry I wasn't clear enough, that was the point I tried to make: Ease of use is in my opinion just a matter of what you're used to and what you have grown up with. Just blatantly saying "IIS is easier to configure than Apache" is just marketing speak and thus not very useful.
It's not that I spent hours clicking through the menus (though remotely administering an NT box through pcAnywhere got on my nerves rather quickly) but once you've done both I can't really say that IIS' GUI approach is a lot easier than skimming through Apache's config file.
The GUI approach might be easier for beginners and people coming from a Windows background. Text-file editing is probably quicker (and certainly quicker over a so-so internet connection) and is easier to modify using scripts.
(The second paragraph makes it look like a troll, but I'm not so sure about the rest of the article)
While your healhty dose of realism is certainly appreciated others have already shown that Apache is not just used on "I love my dog"-sites, but also on high-traffic e-commerce (fah!) sites like Amazon. And while your attempt at associating Apache with the porn-industry as something bad is funny, you should not forget that those sites probably get more traffic than your average small or medium business IIS user.
The real-world, usable, easy to set up, high transaction internet infrastructure of tommorrow is being built by Microsoft
Please! I am not an experienced NT user, but that's no problem since that is exactly what my point is about: Coming from a Unix background I found the IIS interface extremely confusing (compared to a straightforward and well commented Apache config file) and the management console less than stable. I glad I convinced one of my clients to switch to a more sensible solution for a site I have to maintain remotely.
Ah! Netcraft finally knows what this site is running. Very cool. (Yes, I'm a lisp bigot.)
And as for good publicity vs. bad publicity, there's not much difference. Publicity is the point. Forget who said it, but "say whatever you like about me, just so long as you spell my name right."
Apparently this time it was more interesting what he said than who he was.
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You might also want to add to that list: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming / Case Studies in Common Lisp. Also by Peter Norvig. A very well written introductory book in both AI and Lisp. (Even if your a hard-core C coder, some experience with a wholly different language like Lisp will be very good for your overall programming skills.)
Object-Oriented Common Lisp, Stephen Slade, Prentice Hall
I started with this book too and while it is an excellent reference book I didn't like it much to learn Lisp from. I'd advise using the book by Norvig I mentioned above or ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham (the man who wrote store.yahoo.com in Lisp and then sold it to Yahoo for $48 million) if you're interested in learning Lisp. There's also a nice on-line book by David B. Lamkins: Succesful Lisp
(LISP is the language of symbolic programming, and though I'd rather do my stuff in C*, it does cater to AI programming.)
I'd prefer to do my stuff in Lisp ;-) Just to help a common myth out of the world: Lisp is not just an AI language. It is a general purpose language useful for pretty much anything.
It's not that I spent hours clicking through the menus (though remotely administering an NT box through pcAnywhere got on my nerves rather quickly) but once you've done both I can't really say that IIS' GUI approach is a lot easier than skimming through Apache's config file.
The GUI approach might be easier for beginners and people coming from a Windows background. Text-file editing is probably quicker (and certainly quicker over a so-so internet connection) and is easier to modify using scripts.
While your healhty dose of realism is certainly appreciated others have already shown that Apache is not just used on "I love my dog"-sites, but also on high-traffic e-commerce (fah!) sites like Amazon. And while your attempt at associating Apache with the porn-industry as something bad is funny, you should not forget that those sites probably get more traffic than your average small or medium business IIS user.
Please! I am not an experienced NT user, but that's no problem since that is exactly what my point is about: Coming from a Unix background I found the IIS interface extremely confusing (compared to a straightforward and well commented Apache config file) and the management console less than stable. I glad I convinced one of my clients to switch to a more sensible solution for a site I have to maintain remotely.
Ah! Netcraft finally knows what this site is running. Very cool. (Yes, I'm a lisp bigot.)
It uses gcc instead of their own compiler. Check their website.
Apparently this time it was more interesting what he said than who he was.
Which is, on a side note, great music while playing Carmageddon. Especially the first CD. Just like Korn.
"Oh please God NOOOO.." SCREEEECH! *splutter* --