chandra@uiucuxc.UUCP (08/05/84)
#N:uiucuxc:28900003:000:521 uiucuxc!chandra Aug 4 19:35:00 1984 Help !!! I have been using the AI-programming book by Charniak,Riesbeck and McDermott as a reference. I however do not have access to the Lisp dialect in their book. I am working in MacLisp/Franz Lisp and am having some trouble performing the conversion. Judging from the popularity of the book, I wondered if somebody had already written some code to perform the conversion. I also have access to Zeta-lisp and Interlisp. Do you think you can help me? Thank you, Navin Phone 1-800-USA-CERL
seeb@erix.UUCP (Sten-Erik Bergner) (08/15/84)
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