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Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

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Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

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Post by drcode »

natep wrote: post #87
drcode wrote: post #2

Hi HNers- I'm Conrad (aka drcode) the author of said book. Thanks guys for helping build the buzz around LOL! (I should also thank pg for getting me into this stuff in the first place.) I'll be lurking in this thread today and tomorrow... feel free to post any questions about the book or about Lisp in general and I will answer them. Here's the only coupon code currently for the book. I'm posting it exclusively on HN…

Congratulations on getting the book out (and for the 30% off you gave me)! My only question so far is about the comic...what's the point of the 3 panels in the training facility? Is the 'hug' joke supposed to be funny?

I was trying to make fun of the Wii controller... oh well, you can't win them all...

Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

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Post by mahmud »

drcode wrote: post #72
Keyframe wrote: post #71

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Hah this is awesome. Not only from a coding perspective, but from one artist to another - congrats. I really enjoyed that comic about Lisp fleet. Comic also exposes one nasty thing about it - there is no single implementation that has all of the fleet's features. Do you recommend some specific implementation to go with your book? Anyways, first check that comes in November and I'm buying. Congrats on your project onc…

I think Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure each have a lot to offer. I wish there was one perfect Lisp :)

I think it was Appel who had a funny proof for the non-existence of the Perfect Compiler, it can be applied to Lisp quite easily.

FWIW, the proof used the halting problem and went like this. Assume there is a an unoptimized program that, when ran, would go through a series of motions but ultimately halt without any useful output or side-effect. Assume there existed a perfect compiler, PC; that compiler would need to be sufficiently smart enough to translate the problem to a single HALT instruction (or "Label X: goto X".) But since the halting of programs can not be proven analytically, it stands to reason that PC does not exist.

Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

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Post by samatman »

drcode wrote: post #83
djm wrote: post #75

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Thanks for the reply. I asked about what you are using because I have recently tried doing some drawing with a Wacom graphics tablet and am having trouble (I have one of the cheap ones where you draw on the tablet whilst watching the screen - the disconnect between hand and eye makes it difficult). I'll look at some of the things you mentioned and see about trying them. (thanks again!)

Yeah, I found Wacom tablets to be no good for me, for the reason you describe. The iPad is definitely a better drawing device, as long as you don't care about pressure sensitivity. (Hope they release a large-screen iPad soon :)

Not the same thing, but the Cintiq is a monitor you can draw on, which is pressure sensitive and lets you use whatever desktop-grade software you want. I enjoy your drawings and explanations quite a bit; you'd probably find a Cintiq, even the smaller (awesome) one, to be the most natural drawing experience a computer can currently give.

Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

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Post by Keyframe »

drcode wrote: post #92
shiny wrote: post #90

Sorry for the OT question, but what tools did you use to make that video?

http://www.toonboom.com/products/toon-boom-studio/

OT, but check out Digicel Flipbook if you're seriously interested in 2D animation - http://www.digicelinc.com/ it will make your life easier.

Re: Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

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Post by drcode »

macmac wrote: post #52
drcode wrote: post #2

Hi HNers- I'm Conrad (aka drcode) the author of said book. Thanks guys for helping build the buzz around LOL! (I should also thank pg for getting me into this stuff in the first place.) I'll be lurking in this thread today and tomorrow... feel free to post any questions about the book or about Lisp in general and I will answer them. Here's the only coupon code currently for the book. I'm posting it exclusively on HN…

Will there be a Kindle version of the ebook?

yes- takes a couple more weeks to get the mobi file, free with pdf purchase.
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