PG books free to a good home

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by lisper • 18 years ago

13 31 18 years ago

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I have an extra copy of ANSI CL and On Lisp. Free to a good home. Tell me why you want them in the comments in 25 words or less. Best story wins. I reserve the right to decide, but I'll be strongly inclined to go with the story with the most upvotes :-) (I'm not going to strictly enforce the 25 word limit, so if you really feel the need to write more feel free. But don't get too wordy. It's just a pair of books after all.)

qhoxie• 18 years ago

Too many wise people have told me that I don't know beautiful code until I know Lisp. I definitely don't know Lisp, and I want to know beautiful code.

soundsop• 18 years ago

Request Haiku:

  I just want On Lisp,
  to improve my coding style
  with advanced techniques

rms2• 18 years ago

  Like the stars and moon,
  the lambda calculus lists
  my parentheses

Dauntless• 18 years ago

To express oneself

in seventeen syllables

is very diffic

Maro• 18 years ago

I'll write a pair of reviews plus an additional article about LISP itself on bytepawn.com

rms2• 18 years ago

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

maxklein• 18 years ago

I used to have a lisp as a child, and I think receiving the book would be my final moment of triumph. 25 words, no?

anaphoric• 18 years ago

Students often express a vague interest in LISP when I teach AI. It would indeed be nice to have an extra book to loan out.

j2d2• 18 years ago

Practical Common Lisp is free online. Just give them a link.

b3n• 18 years ago

I'm starting a CS degree in a few weeks, therefore I'm poor and in need of Lisp books. :o

pavelludiq• 18 years ago

lisp is cool.

OtherMichael• 18 years ago

learning lisp is my refuge from my VB6-centric workplace.

adm• 18 years ago

(Nero Wolfe)

... Archie was in a shock, and reason was neither that all the orchids were stolen from Wolfe's gallery or is been out for (more than two) times in a day to solve mystery. Archie started thinking. Until in my career, I never saw that fat bastard taking money from a client without Solving the case and being satisfied that he has really earned the money. But what the hell is this? some 'Lisper offers him a couple books (and think what, those are related to LISP which I here are related to black magic, No wonder; Wolfe will enjoy those and will give me hell solving all the mysteries after reading those), And he accepts those? Something is wrong.

kraemate2• 18 years ago

Ive not been able to find copies of these books in India. Been trying for past 2 years.

kraemate2• 18 years ago

Ive not been able to find copies of these books in India. Been trying for past 2 years.

lisper2• 18 years ago

You win. Post (or email if you don't want it made public) your mailing address and I'll send them out.

fp• 18 years ago

I want to master the way of the Lisp Jedi.

  "These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more ... civilized age."

http://xkcd.com/297/

Apteris• 18 years ago

Intertwined, language and data, the moulding of thought.

Lisp

kaens• 18 years ago

Because I am an autodidact that happens to be rather poor at the moment, and has been meaning to master the use of lisp macros.

noor420• 18 years ago

I will sell them on ebay and donate the profits to charity.

byrneseyeview• 18 years ago

I will hijack your shipment of books, and commit myself to studying them for years. After a long absence, I will emerge from my hideaway armed with a thorough understanding of Common Lisp. I will write a single macro, more profound than the deepest koan, more concise than the Reader's Digest Condensed Edition of a haiku. When executed, this macro will generate the source code to a second program -- a program so powerful it will be a Google killer that evolves into a Google killer-killer, all while running on a single 386, even if it isn't plugged in. My Series A will empty Fort Knox, exhaust the New York Fed, and leave me with the Crown Jewels of a thousand forgotten dynasties.

I will sell some of these on ebay, and donate the profits to charity. Top that.

graywh• 18 years ago

Definitely too wordy.

And I find the statement about running on a single 386 unbelievable. You'll need at least 2.

parenthesis2• 18 years ago

Whoever you give them to, we can bring up your generosity wherever anyone doubts that lispers are nice people.

mhb• 18 years ago

I've enjoyed reading On Lisp on-line, but would like the book so I can read in the bathroom. It's not worth $150+ for that convenience though.

gms• 18 years ago

I have been losing sleep trying to find out what the missing figures from the online edition actually look like. Please put me out of my misery.

paddy_m• 18 years ago

Maybe I'm in a part of the lisp echo chamber, but I have to wonder why on lisp hasn't been reprinted. pg any comments?

parenthesis2• 18 years ago

Judging by the second-hand prices, there would seem to be demand.

lisper2• 18 years ago

OK, looks like kraemate is the overwhelming winner, though I have to give an honorable mention to byrneseyeview. Post (or email if you don't want it made public) your mailing address and I'll send them out today.

MaysonL• 18 years ago

On Lisp available via Lulu http://www.lulu.com/content/3060872

PG books free to a good home

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