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Cees de Groot
Cees de Groot
@cdegroot@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp last week

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

Cover of "The Genius of Lisp" book.
Cover of "The Genius of Lisp" book.
Cover of "The Genius of Lisp" book.

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Ramin Honary
Ramin Honary
@ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org  ·  activity timestamp last week

New book: “The Genius of Lisp” by Cees de Groot


Looks like a fascinating read! They have provided chapter 8 as a PDF file downloadable gratis as a sneak-peek into the rest of the book, guess what it’s about:

Chapter 8: Sussman and Steel make Scheme

Awesome! I can’t wait to read that chapter, and then the rest of the book!

Details on the book homepage: https://berksoft.ca/gol/

#tech #software #Lisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #R7RS

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Greg Lloyd
Greg Lloyd
@Roundtrip@federate.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cdegroot
Congratulations and thanks! I’m enjoying the epub edition from Lulu:

“People writing Lisp code to do old-style AI are engaged in a creative act of discovery, an attempt to understand… To discover requires a different sort of language, and it requires a different approach, captured well by the writer Joan Didion:

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.
–Joan Didion, “Why I Write”

Richard P. Gabriel
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NormanDunbar
NormanDunbar
@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cdegroot Good luck with the book. Cheers.

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