In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
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Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#2Website of the book: https://www.nicklevine.org/lisp-book/
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#3[2011].
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#4[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm.
Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#5[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
There's plenty that's worthy and new-to-me even if it's years or decades old. We're sophisticated enough to recognize that but still find the context valuable.
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#6[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
In this case it’s because the title suggests something that’s not correct, that a Lisp book is in work today.
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#7Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#8[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
Look at the headline. There's a vast difference of implications it has when you append "now" to it, vs. "a decade ago".
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#9[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
Some people cling to it more than others. The date is usually added for context around articles where context in terms of time matters (such as this one)
Re: In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (2011)
#10[2011].
Why do people tag the year on articles? I feel like hackers cling to the “if it’s not new, it’s not worthy” paradigm. Update: Thanks for all the replies, makes sense. Why downvote an honest question?
The title is worded in a way that it sounds recent. The title used is the article's summary, and the author saw fit to include the date at the time:
> In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp, and I agreed to write it.
It isn't less worthy if you're looking for an article about the book, but 2009 or 2019 is definitely relevant to whether I'm interested in reading it.