That's very kind of you to say, but don't be so down on yourself
I'm more like impressed on what you guys can do in this forum (so I'm trying to learn whatever I possibly can).
your programming abilities have already improved significantly over the last few months since you started participating on the forums
I guess that once you get to know any programming language + doing alot of experiments and practice (which are results of
high interest) the results are shown...
And then you can get a brief idea of what this language is capable of, so one could give inputs with his ideas about helpful functions (obviously you've been through all of this).
But ofcourse the learning process is not everything.. the tutoring part is (or the good explaining guys are) very important.
Just imagine if in every different programming language there was a Lee Mac guy helping you out with C++/VBA/Ruby/Python...
Its no secret about your huge impact over LISP.
In other words when I attempt to write any decend code in private and I get stuck somewhere in an unknown area,
ofcourse at first I google for a solution... what do I find? - similar question/issue by user X which years ago is solved by Lee Mac.
Then I spend some time to investigate Lee's code to understand or learn something new - so I end up with aside experiment codes where I learned more than I've expected.
Although for some this might sound like a annoying painful process with too much effort, I know that most of you guys here know what is to be driven by your own interest to explore even more in this LISP world.
and so with continued study & practice, there's no reason why you can't continue to progress.
Well with that
trace call you just revealed how such complex iterations/recursions can be visualised, so that shall be my small step of another adventure.
Like I previously mentioned, a I'm a NP++ user, that visualises in his head how the code runs (evaluation by evaluation)
and if stuck - just check the doubtful evaluations in VLIDE's console. So you know that didn't used any other advantages from VLIDE.
I always thought can I impress one of the best LISPers with any code(s) and ended up with progress.
atleast this idea boosted some motivation