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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 speek »

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…

Congrats on the release. I'm excited to finish reading the book. I just thought you should know, however, that there's a minor mistake (I think) in some of the walkthrough stuff in the pdf. On page 56:

  >  (defun pudding-eater (person)
      (cond ((eq person 'henry) (setf *arch-enemy* 'stupid-lisp-alien) '(curse you lisp alien – you ate my pudding))
  	    ((eq person 'johnny) (setf *arch-enemy* 'useless-old-johnny) '(i hope you choked on my pudding johnny))
  	    (t '(why you eat my pudding stranger ?))))

  > (pudding-eater 'johnny)
  (I HOPE YOU CHOKED ON MY PUDDING JOHNNY)

  > *arch-enemy*
  JOHNNY
arch-enemy at this time should hold the value 'useless-old-johnny, not 'johnny

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

#24

Post by alrex021 »

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…

Firstly, congratulations on completing the book.

Will this book be available for Kindle by any chance?

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

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Post by rlm »

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…

Any plans for a epub version? :)
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