cdegroot

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by cdegroot 7mo ago
The book goes back a bit more, so you'd end at Church :-)
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
There's now a list of errata which I'll keep working on, https://berksoft.ca/gol/errata_1.html
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yup. They have a lot of resources available on how to do it but what gets printed is 100% the author's (or publisher's) responsibility.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
I went for the somewhat humbler reasons of "I can assume that my reader will know it at least a bit" and "simple to obtain" - a bunch of the examples will run in the browser :-) But yes, JS' dynamic/LISP-y root
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
It's... "different". I think there are two big things going on: one is the fact that "refactoring" never ends, as you can mold the language around your problem. Ultimately that level of expressiveness makes the hard
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Absolutely not. I created every mistake painstakingly by hand ;-)
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yeah, you can't imagine how happy I was when first RPG sent me some of that material to help me out with background and then said yes when I asked him for permission to include them verbatim in my book. He's such a good writer.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Thanks. An initial list of errata will appear this weekend (probably tomorrow). I think I'll add a RSS feed for it :) W.r.t. actors and scheme: the whole thing is that Sussman and Steele started Scheme to figure out actors, did some ha
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yup, and the book mentions that, including the surprising result that (Hewitt-style) actors - which are not completely like Erlang processes - and Scheme's closures were the same.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Didn't know about the planned GC tricks (I mostly treat LISP 2 in passing so it most salient superficial points: the syntax and the fact it never happened), interesting! W.r.t. tutorials: the most code-rich chapter is the one about &qu
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Thanks. 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.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Turns out that for me, Shopify was even easier, so that's sorted now. In any case, thanks for pushing me into the right direction.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Darn, I had his name wrong and fixed it, but somewhere an undo button must have been hit. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm more than happy to add corrections to an already "longer than zero" list of errata. I'll give the
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
When writing a book, you can't make everybody happy. I wrote this for a somewhat general techie audience and already had debates about the amount of math material in the lead-up to LISP I :-). Especially here on HN, there's a bett
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
These days it's all "I am Groot" :-) _waves a branch_
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yup, you can now. berksoft.ca/gol has a link to a (DRM free) PDF version.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
I would expect it to be good - it's typeset with LaTeX and shipped as a regular (vector) PDF, the rest is on Lulu/Amazon but I don't expect issues there. To be completely honest, I'm still waiting for the author copy fro
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Thanks for pointing it out. It's on the edits list for the next round :)
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
I'm gonna check it out, thanks.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf is the chapter on Scheme, now on the book's site as a free sample. Hope you like it.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf (and of course the stuff that Amazon has in their preview, which amazingly goes all the way through the introductory chapter but yeah, misses something meatier than
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yup, https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf hopefully serves you better.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
The 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.
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Thanks! I'm getting a lot of references here, I guess a next edition will at the very least come with a longer bibliography :)
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
People requested more sample material than Amazon provides, and that's a perfectly understandable request. Chapter 8, about Scheme, it is. https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf is where you can read
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Soo.... 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 w
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
That's why I said "arguably", of course. But, to be honest: Forth is great, but... well... there's no "easy mode" Forth. Whereas there is "easy mode" Scheme - even SICP starts with a very simple and g
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yes, the book doesn't do Lisp justice, it is too short. But at the current volume, I had something at least passing muster; I'm toying with extending it but that depends on feedback/success/etc. There are a lot of Lisp i
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
I'm Canadian. Need to support what little we have here we call "tech industry" even when it's Japanese owned these days :)
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by cdegroot 7mo ago
Yup, I know of that paper. The amount of (not or partly acknowledged) reading I've done for the book borders on the insane so I do welcome these suggestions, I've forgotten 80% of what I read and learning what others value helps m

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