LISP

Elfan · 09/11/05, 3:14 PM

Re item values: "I wrote a little scheme program that does this, so it's fairly easy. "
- wodin, http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...ns&T=143561&P=1

What a geek. Care to share?

• Wodin · 09/11/05, 3:57 PM

It's a cheap hack.

(item-value '(slotname ((stat value) ...))

(expected-item-value 'color 'slot ilvl)

Elfan · 09/11/05, 4:05 PM

Thanks

• Wodin · 09/11/05, 4:27 PM

Uses PLT Scheme or replace the first line with whatever SRFI-1 invocation you need. I can't live without fold. :P

diospadre · 09/11/05, 6:40 PM

I don't understand anything in this thread.

Greybone · 09/11/05, 9:13 PM

Whoa, you write this stuff? I've done a bit of emacs lisp but that was more than enough for me :)

Legato · 09/11/05, 11:29 PM

Oh god, my head hurts.

• Wodin · 09/12/05, 2:22 AM

Originally Posted by Greybone,September 11th, 2005 @ 8:13PM

Whoa, you write this stuff? I've done a bit of emacs lisp but that was more than enough for me :)

I do it as my day job(among many other things) so I let Xel do the mods. :)

Elfan · 09/12/05, 2:27 AM

Do you use a lisp dialect directly in your job? If so what do you think of Paul Graham's evangelism on that topic?

• Wodin · 09/12/05, 9:30 AM

Originally Posted by Elfan,September 12th, 2005 @ 1:27AM

Do you use a lisp dialect directly in your job? If so what do you think of Paul Graham's evangelism on that topic?

No, it's mostly OCaml right now.

I think that Graham had a lot of good ideas and collected a lot of best practices in On Lisp, but that his current work seems to be haring off in the direction of "motivational speaker" more than "good coder explaining what's good." They still haven't released any of their supposed new Scheme dialect, despite the fact they claim it's up and running. It's been nearly two years since they announced that. I'd have to say my opinion would generally be that he's still worth reading and respecting, but that I bust out the grains of salt as well.

I completely and utterly disagree with his ideas with regards to career progression - he seems to think that because he was successful at building a startup, everyone should go out, make a startup company, work 18hr days for 3 years, then retire on the earnings. That's very nice if you can find an idea that nobody has thought of and Microsoft will want to buy, but those are few and far between, and telling people that this is the only way that they can truly be good programmers angries up my blood.

Graham · 09/12/05, 9:36 AM

Originally Posted by Wodin,September 12th, 2005 @ 8:30AM

I think that Graham had a lot of good ideas and collected a lot of best practices in On Lisp, but that his current work seems to be haring off in the direction of "motivational speaker" more than "good coder explaining what's good." They still haven't released any of their supposed new Scheme dialect, despite the fact they claim it's up and running. It's been nearly two years since they announced that. I'd have to say my opinion would generally be that he's still worth reading and respecting, but that I bust out the grains of salt as well.

I completely and utterly disagree with his ideas with regards to career progression - he seems to think that because he was successful at building a startup, everyone should go out, make a startup company, work 18hr days for 3 years, then retire on the earnings. That's very nice if you can find an idea that nobody has thought of and Microsoft will want to buy, but those are few and far between, and telling people that this is the only way that they can truly be good programmers angries up my blood.

Well I'm sorry but if you fucking slackers can't go out and make millions on a start up the way I did then maybe you aren't innovative enough coders.

Thrillho · 09/12/05, 9:50 AM

I think this thread has something to do with the one Xane posted in guild discussion.