Looking for specific feedback: Story of Mac

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:10:47 GMT

In chapter 8 of Practical Common Lisp there is a "Just So" story, The
Story of Mac, about how macros came to be. ("Just So" as in Rudyard
Kipling's Just So stories about how, say, the elephant got it's
trunk.) So far the feedback on that section has been mixed--some folks
hate it; others like it.

I'm revising that chapter now, so if you've got an opinion, now's the
time to let me know. This is not a vote--ultimately I'll decide
whether Mac lives or dies; I'm just interested on what folks think.
Overall thumbs up or thumbs down is fine though extensive
techno-literary criticism is also welcome. Anyway, the chapter is at:

  <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-our-own.html>

and the section in question is the first main section after the
chapter introduction.

-Peter 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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