So as I was reading this wonderful idea about spam control I ran across some LISP:

(let ((g (* 2 (or (gethash word good) 0)))       
      (b (or (gethash word bad) 0)))    
   (unless (< (+ g b) 5)      
     (max .01           
          (min .99 (float (/ (min 1 (/ b nbad))                       
+             
                             (+ (min 1 (/ g ngood))                   
+                
                             (min 1 (/ b nbad)))))))))
[download]

and then later

(let ((prod (apply #'* probs)))   
  (/ prod (+ prod (apply #'* (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (- 1 x))           
+                           
                                     probs)))))
[download]

I'd love to know how this works but I'm not too good with LISP, however Perl makes more sense than English sometimes!

Could somebody help with the translation?

-- Dave

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