Subject: Re: (cached) named return values?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:24:36 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <2Z6dnU4Pzd1pEbPanZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Ken Tilton  <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
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| >>Lisp just has every way imaginable to do anything you might
| >>reasonably want to do, it is thoroughly not a magical superspecial
| >>orgasmic new way of programming so get back to work and when the way you
| >>settle on starts telling you I really do not want to be doing this pick
| >>another way. The more monkeys you have trying more ways obviously the
| >>better.
...
| * Monkeys: plural noun. Kenny's explanation of his programming style. 
| Enough monkeys typing long enough will eventually produce Cells. k
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Yes, but the monkeys need to communicate with each other so that
after one has produced Cells [or whatever the target-of-the-week is]
the others know to *stop*!

I thought that's what "c.l.lisp" was for -- communication between
us randomly-typing monkeys to prune the search tree. No?


-Rob

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