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The field of artificial intelligence has been always something I wanted to take a peek on, but never really had the chance. Could people here recommend me some good books to start my journey on this field?

Company's willing to refactor heavily some main software of ours. We want to port all Delphi code to .NET so we can abandon a lot of legacy code. We've been planing said new software (suposed to do the same the actual does) for nearly two weeks already. Every module we cross is like trying to find the cure for cancer, and right now, I left the meeting because the main module of the project is being fully rewritten since it is prone to failure in some expected error condition and I don't want to have anythind to do with the mess they are designing (we work with hardware that wears out after a while and starts malfunctioning). Sorry about the whole rambling. My question is kind of simple. Do you start planing by the most complicated module to the simplest one, or the opposite? How do you design / plan your softwares at all?

This is NSFW. I guess I should forewarn people.

I know Lisp is interpreted (and this is one of its greatest advantages with its eval loop and all it brings), but is there any tool to compile Lisp code? Or to translate it into C++ code to be compiled with a C++ compiler?

Well, was it fixed? Why is it that that script still works?

Ok, call me stupid. I am a coder, not an accountant. Besides, I am Brazilian so I don't even know how american economy works exactly. Can someone explain what's this fuss is all about in good layman terms?

A long time ago, someone posted here a link to a book on lisp that went out of press and thus was being offered for free as pdf. I downloaded it, but I lost it, and I can't seem to find it again. Could someone please point me to the book again?

I noticed a trend on my company, and I wish to know if this is standard all around. I am a unexperienced coder, I have a tad more than an year on software development field as a professional. I noticed that people that are far more experienced than I am are quite resistant to change or to try anything new. Not many months ago I had a discussion with my manager about being allowed to use .NET 3.5 because the company was still using .NET 1.1 due to the fact that "the company" did not have enough time to analyze how .NET 2.0 "worked" and couldn't understand the impact of the change, much less .NET 2.5. I would still be developping in .NET 1.1 wasn't for the WCF that comes as part of .NET 3.5 and would cut a lot of development time because the company decided to make the software using SOA. Is it always like this? Why is it that the ones that could learn quicker due to their greater experience are the ones less willing to learn?

Thank you for the feedbacks. I shall show it to my teammates. Do everyone here hate meetings as much as I do?

Congratulations, dude. Just don't forget us and keep us informed.