{"id":63,"date":"2006-11-20T11:39:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T10:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/2006\/11\/20\/lisp-breaks-my-brain-meats\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T10:46:43","slug":"lisp-breaks-my-brain-meats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Lisp Breaks My Brain-Meats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/sicp\/full-text\/book\/book.html\">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs<\/a> over the weekend. I&#8217;ve only got as far as the first set of examples and already my head hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Write a procedure that takes three arguments and returns the sum of the squares of the larger two numbers. Without iteration because they haven&#8217;t shown you how to do loops in Scheme at this point in the text.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ts both wonderful and depressing that by the end of page 2 I&#8217;ve already hit a gaping chasm in my programming skills. I will prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this is not a request for people to post the solution. Anyone doing so will suffer the wrath of my patented &#8216;slap-in-the-face-over-XML-RPC&#8217; system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs over the weekend. I&#8217;ve only got as far as the first set of examples and already my head hurts. Write a procedure that takes three arguments and returns the sum of the squares of the larger two numbers. Without iteration because they haven&#8217;t shown you how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lisp Breaks My Brain-Meats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}