"Really?" I hear you saying, "you can’t be serious! Python and Ruby, that’s one thing, but Lisp? Seriously?!" About Lisp Briefly, Lisp is a family of programming languages that date back to 1958. It is characterized by a very simple syntax, garbage collection, reference semantics, and very powerful language extension and self introspection capabilities. Many …
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Memoizer 4b – Common Lisp
Continuing this series, in Common Lisp… Memoizer 1 – C++ Memoizer 2 – Python Memoizer 3 – Lua Memoizer 4a – Lisp for Mortals Memoizer As before, we’ll be walking through a memoizing function — for review, it’s a function that will transforms an existing function into one that remembers previous results instead of recomputing …