Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pd7cy1no!pd7cy2no!shaw.ca!pd7urf3no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.84.208.66 From: paul c User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A Simple Notation References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5GAji.92223$1i1.68633@pd7urf3no> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:57:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.59.144.75 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: pd7urf3no 1183766273 64.59.144.75 (Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:57:53 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:57:53 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:165678 X-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:57:53 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) David Cressey wrote: ... > Lisp is my favorite language that I'm not proficient in. But I understand > the data structures of Lisp better than those of many other languages. > That's only because there is so little to understand and so much value in > understanding it! I think the writing in the Sussman et al SICP might reflect that mentality, it's so-to-the point and consise whereas most, maybe nearly all writing about relational subjects, regardless of author, seems to spend a lot of space struggling. p