These should pretty much cover everything. Read some reviews for which ones or in which order to go through them. Sorry about the source but it was too much to upload directly here.

ANSI Common Lisp - http://ifile.it/34j81k2
Basic Lisp Techniques - http://ifile.it/dh9gcvk
Common Lisp the Language, 2nd - http://ifile.it/9a4xj8b
Common Lisp, 2nd, Steele - http://ifile.it/qurpkwn
Common Lisp, Shapiro - http://ifile.it/b5xl6vm
Common Lisp, Touretzky - http://ifile.it/b9842v5
Interpreting Lisp - http://ifile.it/6wquxm9
Land of Lisp - http://ifile.it/lag1i5n
Loving Lisp - http://ifile.it/qr2ldoj
On Lisp - http://ifile.it/somn4e7
Paradigms of AI Programming - http://ifile.it/0qe3tc7
Practical Common Lisp - http://ifile.it/q2l4crs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd - http://ifile.it/16j0nho

>> 1653
Once you've learned a half a dozen related languages picking up a new one isn't very difficult at all.

Learning different paradigms or root families is more important than just cranking through one language after another.

With that in mind I'd recommend you learn Lisp then Erlang then Haskell. Then maybe learn assembler. Then get the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks and learn all of them.

CSS / HTML should fall into the markup language category rather than programming or scripting.
Mainly because they are used to provide a description of how smth will look.. not scripting / programming languages that define the path of execution and provide facilities for manipulation of data and so on.

>>1793
You can parse English text too, is English a programming language?

>>1804
>HTML should fall into the markup language category
>HyperText Markup Language should fall into the markup language category
Well, duh.

>>1793

> HTML has logical conditions which change the execution/flow of code- Hell it even has error handling.
No it doesn't.

> IT IS PARSED AND RUN by the web browser.
No it isn't.

> AND EXECUTES THIS 'SCRIPT' (by parsing it into COMMANDS- including arguments, data-types, etc. )
This does not apply to HTML, because it is not executed.

> Is its 'final form' (the bit that gets RUN) in ENGLISH (and not compiled to binaries?)
Does this exclude languages that are not in English?

Your arguments are too ridiculous. There's no way you're not a troll.

I use the music to meditate. I focus on flow of the music, where the sounds are going, while doing that I can program. A nice balance of all three, difficult for me to program if I don't have the first two going about simultaneously; way too easily distracted.

I have Kung-Fu as a hobby. It teaches a bit consentration and is more fun than watching paint dry. Meditating helps your consentrationship.

headphones & white noise :)

Using NetBeans or other similar tool.

>>1797
It has to actually be a JButton too.
The system just seems so retarded and rough around the edges, but to each his own.

>>1798
1st: Dont do netbeans.

2nd: !-IMPORTANT-!Set the layout of your frame or panel as null !-IMPORTANT-! This will allow you to use absolute positioning. Those layout managers are a fucking pain. I just code my own panel proportion and location behavior and use scrolling panels where needed.

3rd: set the bounds of your jbutton as the specific location and size.

4th:???


5th: SWING!

>>1604
Having worked with smalltalk for a bit, I'd recomend never touching it with a 10' bargepole. Keep well away

First of all, disregard any advice that discusses language choice.

Given your description, I infer that you want to create something that has at least rudimentary intelligence - this task is, to say the least, MONUMENTAL.
try/catch-blocks and the intricacies of loop structures will not be your problem.

On introspection, your reasoning might appear simple to you, but there's currently no computer on Earth that can rival it.

It's a vast system with parallelism built in at what could be called the transistor level, working with a gigantic knowledge base. Actions like talking, working with unreliable information, constructing a model of the world, inferring rules, are extremely difficult tasks.

Recreating something like this without a (currently not existing) understanding of its structure is simply impossible.

RiveScript or AIML were the best things I found when I had this exact idea. Hope you have more success / fewer distractions than I did.

Also, not related to programming.

Wow. That's the first time I see someone get banned for a post on /pr/.

you don't fuck with /pr/, amirite?

>>1720
You should see what database-backed web programming has become :)

Honestly - so much boilerplate, so much framework, so many layers. So many programmers who think, and worse, say "not enough leyers".

I believe the reason they write more layers is to avoid talking to other people. If you're writing a layer, it's a self-consistent piece of software. If you actually have to write some business logic - you gonna have to go talk to people !!!!

And whilst I can absolutely empathise with that (some of the people I meet in corporate arenas are just unbelievable), reacting like that - and turning that reaction into yet more boilerplate code just makes life difficult for the rest of us.

It's the main reason I want out of business oriented web and database application programming. It's 99% assholes and 1% actual meaningful stuff.

</rant>

Isn't the stack is only a few MB by default?

Only in some ancient VAX systems or so I hear where the stack is in it's own memory region with separate address space it can grow arbitrarily large.

>>1710
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable-Attributes

>>1784
On x86 systems running in protected mode, the stack can have its own address space using segmentation.

what's your motivation?
learning java is great and all, alot of businesses call for it because it can be ported anywhere.

if you want to be an ultrahaxxor (or just want to do anything with your code/script, web development, text manipulation, etc) i would suggest Perl.

Read the C programming language, do all the examples, it is a good book.

If you're working on a Windows platform, go a .net language like C# to start with. Visual Studio comes in legit-free 'express' editions which are fine for small scale development.

If you want to work close to the wire, learn C++ or C as a starting point.

I second Nattajerk. What do you want to do?

Without knowing that any suggestions can only be vague and general.