Re: Paul Graham's teaching style is bad
From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 08/13/04
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:31:06 GMT
"Kevin Clancy" <kevinclancy_@hotmail.com> writes:
> What I need is a more detailed explanation. Obviously, since Graham
> isn't telling the reader everything that he knows, can anyone point
> me to some resources that Graham may have used to gain his
> unrestrainable enthusiasm for this language?
Well he didn't use this resource since it didn't exist until recently
but I'm at work on a book about Common Lisp which you might
useful--it's written for folks who already know how to program in some
other language and have heard enough about Lisp to be curious what
folks like Graham *are* going on about. I have the chapters I've
finished so far up for review at:
<http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/>
You'll probably be particularly interested in chapters 7 and 8 which
cover macros. If you have any feedback I'd love to hear it as you seem
to be pretty good representative of my target reader.
-Peter
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Peter Seibel peter@javamonkey.com
Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp
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