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Don’t ask me why, but I decided to take a part in this virus-like game striked a lot of Planet’s blogs lately. Here’re the rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the closest.

The result for me comes from the “Paradigms of Artifical Intellegence Programming” by Peter Norvig. This great book has been living on my table for month already awaiting for me to finally find some time to get into the wonderful world of the Lisp and AI. The quote is following:

The special form let* is appropriate when you want to use one of the newly introduced variables in a subsequent value computation.

I hope the book will stop having a bad time soon and we’ll be enjoying working together on the fascinating AI stuff for a long time.