Re: Practical Common Lisp reviewed on /.

Peter Seibel <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The Lithp jokes have (predictably) started already as have the
> (equally predictable) responses of "Practical Common Lisp is an
> oxymoron". Anyway, might be a good time for folks who want to defend
> Lisp's honor to head over to /.

You really should be blaming Frank Buss for not only writing a nice
review of your book, but also getting front page coverage of /.

Anyway, now is the time to see if there really is no such thing as bad
publicity. And perhaps now that individual who was saying Lisp needed
more marketing will be happy.

--
An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.
--- Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1
No excuses. No apologies. Just do it.
--- Erik Naggum
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