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what motivated you to write this book? which books inspired you?

• drcode 17y ago
  The 2 main influences for this book: http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
  • bitwize 17y ago
    Good old Basic Computer Games. I was so disappointed by what a racist David Ahl turned out to be. (He was responsible for the incredibly disrespectful "Ninja-Endo" character in late-80s Atari comics.)
    • drcode 17y ago
      Interesting historical detail.
    • harpastum 17y ago
      Do you have any more information on that? I looked around and all I could find were these (fairly racist) asian caricatures in an Atarian Magazine comic strip: http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?MagazineID=13&CurrentPage=25 http://www.atariage.com/magazines/magazine_page.html?Magazin...
      • bitwize 17y ago
        That's what I was referring to. He also has a web page: http://www.swapmeetdave.com http://www.swapmeetdave.com On it he seems to express rather conservative and religious views; make of that what you will.
  • prakash 17y ago
    thanks!
• mahmud 17y ago
  Dr. Barski has been at it for ages; see his site. http://lisperati.com/ http://lisperati.com/ Conrad, I am from the D.C. area; I have been putting off coming to D.C. Fringe for ages until I got a call from Australia and I was told I was on next week's flight. What a bummer. I lived in Arlington Virginia (on Columbia Pike, right near Falls Church and Alexandria) and I worked in the city at 17 and N. How on bloody earth did I miss a Lisp meeting I would never understand; where I live, I am lucky to find a computer programmer.