Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!mcvax!enea!erix!seeb From: seeb@erix.UUCP (Sten-Erik Bergner) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Charniak's "AI-Prog."book:Code Reqst Message-ID: <550@erix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 17:49:29 EDT Article-I.D.: erix.550 Posted: Tue Aug 14 17:49:29 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:56:10 EDT References: <28900003@uiucuxc.UUCP> Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 15 Sure, when I first got my hands on that book that was my reaction too: "Translation please!". But there wasn't any around just then so I had to work my way through it by myself. And I discovered something: Exercises in reading different Lisp dialects are actually good for you, even when they are crammed with programmer defined macros. After all, being able to read is half the secret of communication. If you can't do it --- well, you run into trouble ("Translation please!"). So my advice in this case is: Do it yourself! /Sten-Erik E Bergner - LM Ericsson