Pay
close attention to the shot that is the transition between the past and the future.
This is (IMHO) the most brilliant transition scene ever filmed, in any genre.
Graham's book is the definitive work on Common Lisp's macro facility, itself one of the prime features that make Common Lisp (not Scheme; there's a big difference) the most powerful language on the planet. If your only exposure to Lisp has been a one-semester course that covered Scheme, you don't know Common Lisp. Try it before you judge it. Open-source versions are CMUCL for most Unix/Linux platforms and OpenMCL for Linux/PPC and Darwin/MacOSX. The full language spec and reference is online.
Now if somebody would just write as good a book for CLOS...
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Pay close attention to the shot that is the transition between the past and the future.
This is (IMHO) the most brilliant transition scene ever filmed, in any genre.
Graham's book is the definitive work on Common Lisp's macro facility, itself one of the prime features that make Common Lisp (not Scheme; there's a big difference) the most powerful language on the planet.
If your only exposure to Lisp has been a one-semester course that covered Scheme, you don't know Common Lisp. Try it before you judge it. Open-source versions are CMUCL for most Unix/Linux platforms and OpenMCL for Linux/PPC and Darwin/MacOSX. The full language spec and reference is online.
Now if somebody would just write as good a book for CLOS...