[LispSea] instruction then presentation

[Bruce Butterfield]

> What's needed is a demonstration of code maturing from blank
> canvas to just-get-something-working to various directions
> of "what if?" before settling on what's right for the task
> at hand.
> 
> 
> 	We could structure our sessions with the first 30
> minutes for instruction and the next hour or so as deeper
> presentation, show & tell, etc.
> 
> 

I agree this is a good approach but I do think that the emphasis has to 
be on how to do things 'The Lisp Way (tm).' I have found Marco 
Baringer's video demos 
<http://http://www.cl-user.net/asp/web-sites/slime-video>, 
<http://www.cl-user.net/asp/web-sites/ucw-video>) useful in how the lisp 
development process can work; I would be very interested in learning how 
to think in lisp -- CLOS, macros, "bottom-up, top-down" approaches, 
idioms, etc. Common Lisp is a general purpose language, with acute 
accent on 'general' so it would be great to see how different developers 
attack similar problems.