A Surfer's Guide to Lisp-Stat
by John Scales and Martin Smith
This document began life as a quick intro to Lisp-Stat
for our book on Geophysical Inverse Theory (a draft of which
is available from Samizdat). It expanded last fall when
JS taught Object-Oriented Programming to a group of sophomore
engineering students at CSM. Lisp-Stat is an Object-Oriented
flavor of Lisp that is extremely easy to learn. It puts you in
a position to benefit from OO design more quickly than C++, for
example. In addition, it has powerful statistical and numerical
features that make it a very useful tool for interactive scientific
calculations. The original (short) version of these notes has been
translated into Korean by Jong Min-Soo and can be found on
Jong Min-Soo's
WWW page.
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