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This is the same thing. The point is that you say "10 5% improvements of state S0" in that sentence and then later on you use 10 5% improvements of state S0, S1... S9. This doesn't make any sense, could you explain to me how this would work?

Comment · 12 years ago

I'd call Common Lisp functional between quotes.

Comment · 12 years ago

I don't think that any Lisp programmer downvoted him.

Comment · 12 years ago

Sure, check out pgloader (this guy re-wrote a Python program into Common Lisp and wrote about the experience), the European Lisp Symposium ( http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/content-programme-ful... ), it's used by Google (ITA, air fairing system), it was used by Naughty Dog for their PS1 and PS2 games (they still use Lisp for scripting), it's been used by NASA, DART ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... ), Cyc, there's a European company I can't remember the name of that uses Common Lisp for its train scheduling system. There's this new Swedish music company that uses Common Lisp for their software.

If you want to see much used applications in the Common Lisp community then check out all of Edi Weitz' software http://weitz.de/

Most Common Lisp that you use is in stuff you don't see, there're no Ruby hipsters here.

EDIT: Oh, or why not something like StumpWm? Really, thre's a lot of cool Common Lisp software out there.

Comment · 12 years ago

But you won't be allowed to post those apps on the Play Market, because apparently compiling code at runtime isn't okay.

Comment · 12 years ago

I know :)

I meant "take Java math code and convert into LaTeX, display inline", the first part is the missing one!

Comment · 12 years ago

The weird thing is that some people feel that they need to find all kinds of justifications for why not having an infix syntax is OK.

Arithmetic in Lisp-style is excellent and easy to read. Thing is that programming languages infix math is ridiculously bad compared to what I can do with paper and pencil. It's really just a really bad form of imitation and to me that irks me way more than just doing it in Lisp. Math written in PL:s is hard to read in general and I'd love to see an Emacs package that lets you show an inline picture as you mark a mathematical expression of LaTeX rendering it as 'regular' math.

Comment · 12 years ago

First of all: A wide stance low bar back squat going down to parallel together with conventional deadlifts will strengthen your hamstrings and glutes greatly. There are reasons to pull sumo, those reasons are mainly proportion-related. Most people I've talked to who pull sumo at meets usually also train using the conventional dead lift (see for example Dan Green).

Second of all: I'm going to assume that your pelvis suffer from an anterior tilt. If so, then focus more on stretching your psoas muscles since these are usually very tight in people who sit down a lot (and you browse HNews) and pulls on your pelvis. Strengthening your back, hamstrings, glutes and quads aren't a bad idea either, it's just that these are things that usually come with a good training program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas_major_muscle

Third of all: The position that is toughest for the lifter is largely dependent on the lifter's own weaknesses. I, for example, deadlift conventionally and have the most trouble to come off the floor because I usually do touch-and-go DLs.