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The book goes back a bit more, so you'd end at Church :-)

There's now a list of errata which I'll keep working on, https://berksoft.ca/gol/errata_1.html

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.

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 :-) Bu…

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 lev…

Absolutely not. I created every mistake painstakingly by hand ;-)

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 the…

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 …

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.

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. tut…

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 …

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.

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 t…

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…

These days it's all "I am Groot" :-) _waves a branch_

Yup, you can now. berksoft.ca/gol has a link to a (DRM free) PDF version.

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…

Thanks for pointing it out. It's on the edits list for the next round :)

I'm gonna check it out, thanks.

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.

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 bu…

Yup, https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf hopefully serves you better.

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 t…

Thanks! I'm getting a lot of references here, I guess a next edition will at the very least come with a longer bibliography :)

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-ch…