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Any reason for that?
by Scriptor 17y ago
Any reason for that?
- randallsquared 17y agoI don't know what the reason was, but you can probably find someone mentioning it by searching the threads referencing the publisher in comp.lang.lisp, from 5-6 years ago.
- jedi_stannis 17y agoThe reason seems to just be that LISP books generally don't sell well. And it seems to still be in their submission guidelines. http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/writeforus_1101.html http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/writeforus_1101.html "Books on topics that have dismal sales despite quality books being available. (If you're addressing a topic where good books have sold dismally in the past (for instance, LISP, LaTeX, or Web-based training),"
- Semiapies 17y agoWell, maybe LISP stuff is moving out of the "doesn't sell" category.