It really shows. A friend of mine asked me about it, and my abbreviated review was just "it makes programming fun again." I hesitated to use that in my earlier

It really shows. A friend of mine asked me about it, and my abbreviated review was just "it makes programming fun again." I hesitated to use that in my earlier comment because some might use it to paint a bad picture of me, contrasting it with the idea that all good programmers love their craft and are always writing code because it's always fun for them. I just think that as you get into meatier works and start architecting larger applications, there's always going to be some hair pulling and you're going to fight wars with your compiler/interpreter/whatever. LPTHW isn't like that. You just sort of cut through the bullshit and get on with the fun stuff, and it makes the learning process easier. So thanks. I look forward to reading your other works as they finish.