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ONLamp.com: Paul Graham on Hacking [May. 27, 2004]
Paul Graham is a hacker, a painter, and an essayist known as much for his thoughtful writings on spam, hacking, and Lisp as for creating the Arc programming language. His new book, Hackers & Painters, contains many of his popular essays as well as several new ones.
Graham is a really good writer. I'm currently reading Graham's ANSI Common Lisp and hoping that On Lisp, long out of print, gets republished sometime soon.
Which is what I'm wondering about: why doesn't O'Reilly republish it? They've never, as far as I know, published a Lisp book. Hackers and Painters is a book of essays. Why no Lisp from O'Reilly? Weird.
Comments
The "Why no Lisp book?" comes up occasionally. Mostly, I think people worry that the audience is too small. It's a good idea though.
Posted by: chromatic | May 28, 2004 3:29 PM
It'd go to the top of my O'Reilly must-buy list.
Graham sometimes annoys me but I printed out and read a bunch of the pdf of On Lisp and it was really well written & enjoyable.
Posted by: Ed Heil | May 28, 2004 4:43 PM
_On Lisp_ is available for download, courtesy of Mr. Graham and his publisher. See http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html for details
Posted by: J. P. Snodgrass | June 2, 2004 11:28 PM
_On Lisp_ is available for download, courtesy of Mr. Graham and his publisher. See http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html for details
Posted by: J. P. Snodgrass | June 2, 2004 11:29 PM