Land of Lisp

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I picked up this book a short while ago for two reasons: 1) I wanted to 'learn the language of my editor' (emacs) 2) to learn a bit of functional programming style/way of thinking

I am about half-way through and loving every minute of it.

I am having the same experience. I even bought a copy of this book for my cousin who is interested in programming... although I'm afraid the mathematical concepts involved in lisp and other functional languages might mess up his mathematical development for a few years (at least until he gets into high school)

Hi, I'm the author... Did you really have to pick today to repost my book? Now I feel guilty I never got around to blacking out my website :-)

(Also, I'm happy to answer any questions in this thread.)

Did you learn to draw from Commander Mark? :-)

Not that I know of, but since Wikipedia is down today I can't figure out who he is and say for sure :-)

Any thoughts about a Clojure translation?

I would like that, but it's a lot of work to write a book. There is, however, a Scheme version in the works (Realm of Racket it'll be called)

I'll be curious to see what Apple is doing tomorrow- It might be tempting for a different take for a book project.

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