Erdos Had The Number First

I’ve got a problem.

It’s LISP. I do nearly all my programming in Python, C++, and OCaml (In that order) and I do some work with genetic algorithms that is somewhat painful to do in C++ [1] but easy to do in Python and Fast when run in OCaml (and now that I’ve learned how to use ocamllex/ocamllyacc it’ll be easy to do in OCaml too).

Notice there is no LISP there. And that is the problem. I can use elisp to customize my xemacs sessions but that’s about as far as it gets.
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N 43′46.339″
W 72′22.039″

Last weekend I was there. My wife’s family owns a small (57 acres) “farm” (they never farmed this land, but if was once farmed. It’s off an unpaved road, pretty much in the middle of nowhere.
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