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I agree final app size would be a further selling point for me too. I am glad to see Lisp, CL, in the headlines other than clojure. I guess the ubiquity of JS has lead to the possibility Ceramic offers due to Electron. Slightly, OT, but I am reading 'The Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang', and I am waiting to learn enough Erlang to jump over to using LFE (Lisp flavored Erlang) mid-book. @mark_l_watson, I started with your 'Common Lisp Modules:..' book, and now I am hooked on AI, NN and Lisp. Thanks!

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I am glad to see Lisp, CL, in the headlines other than clojure.

We've had a string of really cool lisp projects this year, web frameworks, implementations, web servers, libraries, etc. Couple that with Edi Weitz's upcoming book, it's as exiting to be a lisper now as ever. Hack gloriously and eat your parenthesis for breakfast my lispy friends :)

Thanks! Richard Stallman asked me several years ago about releasing my old Lisp book under a FSF documentation license, but I can't find my old manuscript files. Maybe I will ask my wife to re-type it all.

What about crowdsourcing the job? I'm sure people would be willing to help.

wow that's an expensive book! even the ebook is $150

Which? Mark's book or the Erlang book I cited above?

Mark's book can be found used for $3.00 on Amazon.

Certainly not my book :-)

Edi's upcoming book on Amazon is listed as $56, due December 2015. I will probably buy a copy when it ships.

EDIT: I just pre ordered a copy on Amazon to lock in that price.

Which book are you referring to here?

Edi Weitz's "Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach", listed on Amazon for December 2015.

Thanks for the $3 Amazon reference. I only have one copy of my (very) old book, and just ordered a used copy so I have a spare. I was surprised to see that Springer Verlag still sells it new - I thought that it was out of print a long time ago.

The Erlang book direct from publisher has to be one of the highest ebook prices I've ever seen.

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