Even putting the common lisp aside, PAIP is my favourite book about programming in general, by FAR. Norvig's programming style is so clear and expressive, the book touches on more "pedestrian" parts of programming: building tools / performance / debugging, but also walks you through a serious set of algorithms that are actually practical and that I use regularly (and they shape your thinking): search, pattern matching, to some extent unification, building interpreters and compilers, manipulating code as data.
It's also extremely fun, you go from building Eliza to a full pattern matcher to a planning agent to a prolog compiler.
Big fan of Lispworks (Yes, there is a free version). Using it in production, as many others. Using Quicklisp in experiments. Not direct in my codebase. Lisp will always be there. Learning Lisp will make you a better programmer, while having fun.
And I think that the argument would be that during the return to backstops you would increase the speed of the boat's shell -- leading to a drag term proportional to v^2, in addition to the mean speed of the boat, effectively demanding an increased power on your behalf during the drive to compensate for it. If you move to front stops slower, the bow doesn't surge as much, and the required power is therefore more constant.
You have a certain amount of time (read: very little) to reach the catch if you want to maintain a high stroke rate.
Assuming a fixed time “pulling” in a given stroke, and given two options:
- Row 35 spm and reach the catch slower
- Row 40 spm and have to go faster to reach the catch
I’m pretty sure the latter would win a race. Even though you’re “rushing” the slide and robbing the boat of momentum.
The problem is that the coaches were so adamant about crawling up to the catch, that something has to give, and stroke rate suffers. I know this because after being taught by said coaches, I rowed the stroke seat in my first race, keeping everything in mind the coaches had taught me. I ended up rowing an average of 27 spm and we got absolutely trounced.
Sorry, I have to disagree. €500-600 for just the ability to use the IDE but not being able to create an executable doesn't sound very appealing to me. And that all limited to "non-commercial" use. And per platform. So you can't just switch between different OSes.
