From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:45:05 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth! In-Reply-To: References: <20180216021931.7450118C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20180216024857.GH8295@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 16/02/2018, Tim Bradshaw wrote (in part): > In General Relativity, one of the things you need to do is, starting from a > metric [...], compute various geometrically and physically interesting properties. Susssman is trying to teach DG via lisp. (Vide his "Functional Differential Geometry".) And a really nice post, by the way. N. P.S. Graham wants everyone to use LISP (http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html ).