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I felt, like some of the other commenters, that I was close to buying the book, but that the sample on Amazon wasn't helping to support a buying decision. But
by jll29 8mo ago
I felt, like some of the other commenters, that I was close to buying the book, but that the sample on Amazon wasn't helping to support a buying decision.
But thankfully the bibliography is given on the book's Web site in full, so I just checked if the most important paper on the history of early LISP [1] was cited or not. It wasn't, so I'm going to pass on ordering the book's first edition.
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800055.802047 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800055.802047
- emigre 8mo agoThanks for sharing that paper, I didn't know about it. It looks really interesting.
- pmcjones 8mo agoAnd here's an English translation of the History chapter from Stoyan's 1980 book _LISP-Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte_ [LISP Application, Basic Concepts, History]: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/Stoyan-Geschichte.pdf https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/S...
- emigre 8mo agoReally nice of you to share it, thank you.
- emigre 8mo agoI will read them over the weekend.
- cdegroot 8mo agoThanks. Even though I'm originally from Europe, the book has ended up somewhat focused on what happened on the continent where I now live. It's something I'm planning to fix for a potential second edition.
- cdegroot 8mo agoSoo.... the book has a bit of a history (see the acknowledgements). When I worked with a publisher, "academic" things like a bibliography were somewhat de-emphasized and the tooling was not nearly as nice as, well, BibTeX. So we went for a very short bibliography containing works that were directly quoted. I did read the paper way back when doing research for the first chapters, but over the years the reference got lost and that's the main reason it didn't make it in. But you're right, it (and many, many, _many_ other things) does belong in the bibliography.
- jmcguckin 8mo agoCan i get it in pdf form, or at least, can i get a copy of the epub, instead of being helf hostage to a proprietary reading walled garden like Amazon. Does Nook allow you to download the epub file? But, I’d prefer pdf.
- cdegroot 8mo agoYup, you can now. berksoft.ca/gol has a link to a (DRM free) PDF version.
- cdegroot 8mo agoThe Kobo version is a DRM free epub, so you can read it wherever you like. I'm still figuring out how/where to sell a PDF, because I really, really, _really_ do not like epub for technical books. It's ok for novels, at best. Tips welcome. https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf has a free chapter.