Re: [clisp-list] Assistance with CLX in CLISP on Ubuntu?

[Donald W. <dwi...@bo...>]

Thanks for your direct comments -- all of them warranted.

The book I have used most is Touretzky's `Gentle Introduction to
Symbolic Computation'.  I have the others you name.

I'll be better prepared next time.

_don



On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
>> * Donald Winiecki <qjvavrpxv@obvfrfgngr.rqh> [2013-02-08 13:27:09 -0700]:
>>
>> Didn't know some of the specifics of syntax
>
> I think your problem is that you do not know Lisp well yet.
> You might want to start with a book (Graham's 'ANSI CL', or Seibe's
> 'Practical CL') and then many of your problems will become trivial to you.
> Seriously, you will advance much farther much faster if you invest in a book.
>
>> ... things freeze after the first demo...
>
> maybe you need to click on the demo window?
> hit 'q'?
> wait more?
> read the sources and you will figure that out.
>
>> Attempting to load specific demos succeeds -- the file loads -- but
>> attempting to invoke the file by calling it in clisp gets an
>> `undefined function ...' error.
>
> There is no such thing as "invoke the file" or "call a file" in CL.
> You are not even saying which function is undefined!
> (however, my ESP tells me that the reason is that you are not giving the
> right package prefix; read on the *package* variable and try
> find-all-symbols on the undefined function name).
>
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