O'Reilly will be publishing a collection of essays by Paul Graham titled Hackers and Painters (see this previous post).
Posted by jjwiseman at January 02, 2004 04:59 PMWhat's the book about? Big new ideas emanating from the world of computers: open source, startups, Web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, digital design, nerds, free speech online.
Many of the big new ideas at the moment are connected with computers. Our field is hot now, and like a hot object it's radiating ideas into other fields. Fields that have nothing intrinsically to do with computers-- law, accounting, architecture, music-- tend to be changing fastest at the point where they and computers meet.
Graham has invaded O'Reilly...
I wonder if APress is releasing On Lisp at the same time as Peter Seibel's and Barry Margolin's books. Nice splash there, instead of a couple of texts dribbling out about some esoteric language.
Here's hoping that textbook publishers start releasing DVDs of lectures given by authors. This wouldn't compete with schools, since lectures aren't the main thing they offer.
Posted by: Tayssir John Gabbour on January 3, 2004 03:58 AMThat's David Margolies, not Barry Margolin, by the way.
Posted by: Edi Weitz on January 3, 2004 11:56 AMMy pattern matcher sucks. I've embarrassed myself at a lisp meeting, referring to "Peter Gabriel," and NeXTStep instead of NeWS. Mea culpa, Messrs. Margolies and Margolin.
Posted by: Tayssir John Gabbour on January 3, 2004 02:06 PMI hope Apress is still publishing On Lisp, it doesn't show up in any searches. With sellers on Amazon asking $200, with the text freely available online, it seems like it's a license to print money, at least for a small run.
Posted by: Gordon Weakliem on January 7, 2004 11:24 AMI asked on Apress' forum and they said that On Lisp would probably publish in the Summer. They were waiting on Paul to deliver the manuscript.
Posted by: Chris Van Dusen on February 27, 2004 09:18 PMI asked on Apress' forum and they said that On Lisp would probably publish in the Summer. They were waiting on Paul to deliver the manuscript.
Posted by: Chris Van Dusen on February 27, 2004 09:20 PM