Nevermind university, a publicly visible lisp community just doesn't exist, with all due respect, to motivate it's use, books or not. That sounds dismissuve, bu

Nevermind university, a publicly visible lisp community just doesn't exist, with all due respect, to motivate it's use, books or not. That sounds dismissuve, but Programming should be a social effort in the large. I guess the point I was trying to make is that patronage at the right time might have a lot more potential to generate motivation, insights, etc. Professors in huge classes are too distant for that, agreed, but one benefit of university is the social experience. Outside of university, stumbling on the right path without guidance would be extremely lucky, while finding a good book on the internet depends on asking the right questions and one single book certainly isn't enough. And most people need guidance on how to work through books, to begin with. Sure, with regards to information technology, the internet hosts the largest community there is to learn from, but arguably it is, again, almost too big for a novice (and might have a lot of negative side effects).