19:11:46user51dbotton_: thanks. i switched to land of lisp, which is much less dry and also seems to have been reviewed by an editor before publishing.
19:14:30mseddonis Land of Lisp common lisp focused?
19:31:05minionuser51: paip: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. More about Common Lisp than Artificial Intelligence. Now freely available at https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
19:31:29jasomuser51: that book has a lot of CL code with explanations
19:33:10user51thanks. i'll look at those once i'm done with LOL
19:59:10ebrascadbotton: Now Mezzano does have some years.
21:11:50ChoHagIs there a way to do this without the eval: (define y 21)(define x 'y)(eval `(* ,x 2))
21:12:07ChoHagUh that's scheme but you get the idea.
21:12:34ChoHagHmm actually no doesn't lisp have a whole bunch of seperate namespaces?