Recent content by abhishek

To answer the original question, assuming Common Lisp, you want to use prog (short for "program"), or its variations depending which value you want returned. For example: (if (zerop index) nil (progn (first-form) (second-form))) That example uses the progn variation of prog. It will...

"Functional programming: LISP is the best known in this group" and "It's another popular AI language", both sound very much like a (poor) description of Lisp to me. A general-purpose, multi-paradigm language is a strange way to introduce functional programming or AI, and vice versa. In any...

I think that is a mischaracterisation. I'm not sure which dialect of Lisp you're referring to. The most prominent ones these days are Common Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp. Common Lisp and Scheme are multi-paradigm, general-purpose languages, not just functional programming languages for AI...

It's the header of a for loop. i takes on the value of n initially; the loop body (which you haven't shown) is executed; i changes by -1; and the loop repeats until i and j are equal. Refer to: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk_r13/help/toolbox/rptgen/forloop.html :smile:

Good question. I think he has ambition and confidence like Schumacher had when moving from Benetton to Ferrari (who were not just low on luck but also lacked the capacity for winning). Such a move can work out. :wink: Of course, the circumstances were slightly different for Schumacher, as...

Greg, since you're online, I'll ask again about that Flash menu. Will you be doing anything about it? Even if I enable Flash, I'll have lost a lot of functionality such as being able to right-click and copy target URLs, open links in new tabs, interact using the keyboard, etc. It definitely...

It's Tuvalu. :wink:

I like change for the most part. :smile: Anti-aliasing on the small postbit buttons looks bad. Widget fonts are a little repulsive to me. But all that's not important. Could you please not use Flash for the menu in the header? I'm alright with not seeing the logo Flash thing, but I don't...

I hope I'm in the right section. :smile: This is more or less a question about finding some published documents... I'm a little curious about Hestenes' FCI. I've encountered it a few times over the past year through papers and talks about science education, but they only mention its name and...

I do like the sed by example series. :smile: Thanks for the link. (You'd think I'd have known about it already, being a Gentoo user.) :blushing:

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. :smile: In a discussion we're having on our compsci forums at uni, about binary numbers, someone brought up the notion of non-integral bases. I take it to mean numbers with bases that aren't integers. Is this right? I've never encountered such a...

Hah, I don't doubt MIT have good boards. I expect there is a significant price differential to be accounted for though. As well as an unusual maintenance regimen. :bugeye:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It makes Ben Hur look like an epic. :wink:

Sometimes I post from uni. Like now, when I have absolutely nothing to do. Not sure if they monitor this... there are hundreds (thousands?) of machines with internet access on the network, after all, so maybe they don't. Can't possibly be a problem with a physics student posting on PF from a...

I prefer whiteboards. When chalkboards age and get lighter, it becomes horrible to read off. May be just my eyes. Whiteboards get stained too but it's not so bad. I don't get to write much on either of them, but I prefer whiteboards again, especially if the marker is nice and new and smooth.