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I gave away most of my technical books a few years ago, but I kept The Art if Prolog and about 50 other classics. It has been a while since I worked with Prolo

I gave away most of my technical books a few years ago, but I kept The Art if Prolog and about 50 other classics. It has been a while since I worked with Prolog professionally, but the memories are fond/good. Good to see that the PDF is available for download. For people who craft their code in languages like Python, Java, JavaScript, etc., I recommend just playing with an alternative language, whether it be Scheme, Common Lisp, Prolog, Haskell, ML, etc. Sometimes just a few evenings working through tutorials on the web is enough to expand the brain.

Kototama 6y ago
How did you decided that it was time to give away your technical books?
- inetsee 6y ago
  (I'm not Mark) but I would expect it was an issue of space. About 6 years ago my wife and I moved from a house with a full basement to a condo. The house had 1200 sq feet, and the basement added another 1200 sq feet. The condo had 1400 sq feet. I had to get rid of about 1000 books and my wife had to get rid of more than 2000 books. I'm OK with ebooks (I actually prefer them), but my wife loves the feel of a real, physical book in her hands. Because of Covid-19 she has been reading more ebooks, but as soon as the library opened back up (with limitations) she went back to requesting as many books as she could.
- mark_l_watson 6y ago
  As inetsee said, it is because of space. I got rid of a whole wall of shelves in my home office to make room for a meditation area and room to have my instruments out and handy.
  - 7thaccount 6y ago
    Instruments?
    - keyle 6y ago
      I take it Mark is a musician. Or he likes to have a room to probe with things? Let's go with musician.
      - mark_l_watson 6y ago
        Exactly right. I play didgeridoo, American Native Flute, and guitar. [1] https://markwatson.com/fun/ https://markwatson.com/fun/
        7thaccount 6y ago
        Thanks Mark. I didn't know if it was music or electronics or what lol.
      - deleted 6y ago
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Kototama 6y ago

How did you decided that it was time to give away your technical books?

inetsee 6y ago
(I'm not Mark) but I would expect it was an issue of space. About 6 years ago my wife and I moved from a house with a full basement to a condo. The house had 1200 sq feet, and the basement added another 1200 sq feet. The condo had 1400 sq feet. I had to get rid of about 1000 books and my wife had to get rid of more than 2000 books. I'm OK with ebooks (I actually prefer them), but my wife loves the feel of a real, physical book in her hands. Because of Covid-19 she has been reading more ebooks, but as soon as the library opened back up (with limitations) she went back to requesting as many books as she could.
mark_l_watson 6y ago
As inetsee said, it is because of space. I got rid of a whole wall of shelves in my home office to make room for a meditation area and room to have my instruments out and handy.
- 7thaccount 6y ago
  Instruments?
  - keyle 6y ago
    I take it Mark is a musician. Or he likes to have a room to probe with things? Let's go with musician.
    - mark_l_watson 6y ago
      Exactly right. I play didgeridoo, American Native Flute, and guitar. [1] https://markwatson.com/fun/ https://markwatson.com/fun/
      - 7thaccount 6y ago
        Thanks Mark. I didn't know if it was music or electronics or what lol.
    - deleted 6y ago
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