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Review of Let over Lambda by Doug Hoyte
This book for some reason was ignored from the discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052858) yesterday about the Lisp fingerprint reader. I think more people should read it.
- sunkencity 17y agoI love that on the books own page it is described as: "Let Over Lambda (ISBN 978-1-4357-1275-1, 376+iv pp.) is one of the most hardcore computer programming books out there."
- kmcgivney 17y agoThis book is a little controversial among lispers. There was a discussion about it recently on c.l.l. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thread/6672207416edf1b9# http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr... I'm thinking about reading it. Some people don't like the editing, since it's self-published and doesn't have a lot of polish. It's also pretty heavy on the author's opinions (which might not be a bad thing).
- mahmud 17y agoThat book is a troll with an ISBN. It's funny, intelligent, odd, and irritating. But it will not teach you any Lisp. I liked the parts of it that I have seen, but in a perverse, guilty-pleasure kind of way.