| adeht | rindolf: my brother had AIMA in hard-cover.. and maybe I can get a hold of PAIP |
| adeht | s/had/has/; |
| * adeht | yays for perl |
| rindolf | adeht: what did perl do? |
| adeht | <adeht> s/had/has/; |
| rindolf | adeht: it’s actually from sed and ed before that. |
| adeht | I know, but I’m using perl syntax :) |
| rindolf | adeht: now write it in Lisp. |
| adeht | heh. |
| adeht | in Lisp you wouldn’t use a regex for this kind of dumb substitution.. though you could |
| adeht | rindolf: a nice way of writing CL code is to imagine your dream language for expressing that particular problem, and then realizing it :) |
| rindolf | You probably wouldn’t use a regex in Python either. |
| rindolf | adeht: I see. |
| rindolf | adeht: I’m not going to implement Perl in Common Lisp. :-D |
| adeht | heh |