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03:35 dotplus joined #sourcefu
11:53 pdurbin_m joined #sourcefu
11:53 pdurbin_m E02 -- Lisp: Learning to Think about Thinking | Restless Device: http://www.restlessdevice.com/e02-lisp-learning-to-think-about-thinking/
12:37 pdurbin via Eric Normand on Twitter: "Great intro to Lisp for everyone (not just programmers) from @dave_unger https://t.co/Vok8a0nTCE https://t.co/6E7IuozMVz" - https://twitter.com/ericnormand/status/722112757932376064
12:38 pdurbin sivoais: I think you'd enjoy that episode
16:03 pdurbin this looks interesting: https://github.com/Harvard-University-iCommons/TLT-User-Experience/wiki
18:15 sivoais ooh, that episode does look neat. Logo was my first programming language
18:17 pdurbin sivoais: I had no idea that Logo is a Lisp!
18:20 sivoais Lisp has quite a lot of influence. If you look under the hood, R is very similar to Scheme. :-)
18:21 pdurbin hmm
18:22 sivoais The internal data structure for R code is called a SXP (for S-expression).
18:25 sivoais and R has support for lazy evaluation. For example, when you plot the variables x and y, the plotting function is able to take the names of variables and put them on the plot axes.
18:26 pdurbin Cool. Perl is definitely influenced by Lisp, of course. I'm sure many languages are.

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