'On Lisp' for $140

From: John Landahl (john_at_landahl.org)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 09:52:18 -0800

Powells has a copy of 'On Lisp' for $140. In "less than standard"
condition.

http://tinyurl.com/43ac8

I'll wait for the reprint.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
    ... to be explicit on this and there was no money to do that project. ... there were things in the ANSI CL standard that defied ... I guess in all your advocacy of and/or comparison to Java I just missed ... >> Lisp vendors react to money, not rhetoric in the design of their product. ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: Modernizing Common Lisp
    ... I'm a Lisp newbie, so I admit I have not experienced it in Lisp. ... been programming on many systems for 25 years. ... We all used to run different networking protocols: ... like ASDF is working itself up to be quite a defacto standard here in the ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: Popularity of programming languages
    ... >> achieve portability across many CL implementations in your own code, ... > standard simply doesn't provide what writers of portable code need. ... > - Lisp is a rich language with a standard ... The Common Lisp standard provides a lot more stuff than the Scheme ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: why is lisp fast?
    ... this code leads to bugs (in C or Lisp) unless you're ... I grant that Franz has documented this deviation from the standard, ... conformant, even though all of them do "purport to conform". ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: constantp values always available at macro expansion time?
    ... or is the cross-compilation mostly geared toward the compilation ... I guess it depends on what you mean by "standard". ... language for expressing Common Lisp implementations is precisely ANSI ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)