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13 points by lisper on Sept 8, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 31 comments
I have an extra copy of ANSI CL and On Lisp. Free to a good home. Tell me why you want them in the comments in 25 words or less. Best story wins. I reserve the right to decide, but I'll be strongly inclined to go with the story with the most upvotes :-) (I'm not going to strictly enforce the 25 word limit, so if you really feel the need to write more feel free. But don't get too wordy. It's just a pair of books after all.)



Ive not been able to find copies of these books in India. Been trying for past 2 years.


You win. Post (or email if you don't want it made public) your mailing address and I'll send them out.


http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html


Request Haiku:

  I just want On Lisp,
  to improve my coding style
  with advanced techniques


  Like the stars and moon,
  the lambda calculus lists
  my parentheses


To express oneself

in seventeen syllables

is very diffic


  "Haikus are easy,
  but sometimes they don't make sense. 
  Refrigerator."


Someone was wearing that shirt at demo day. Love it


I used to have a lisp as a child, and I think receiving the book would be my final moment of triumph. 25 words, no?


OK, looks like kraemate is the overwhelming winner, though I have to give an honorable mention to byrneseyeview. Post (or email if you don't want it made public) your mailing address and I'll send them out today.


I'm starting a CS degree in a few weeks, therefore I'm poor and in need of Lisp books. :o


I've enjoyed reading On Lisp on-line, but would like the book so I can read in the bathroom. It's not worth $150+ for that convenience though.


Maybe I'm in a part of the lisp echo chamber, but I have to wonder why on lisp hasn't been reprinted. pg any comments?


Judging by the second-hand prices, there would seem to be demand.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=264296


(Nero Wolfe)

... Archie was in a shock, and reason was neither that all the orchids were stolen from Wolfe's gallery or is been out for (more than two) times in a day to solve mystery. Archie started thinking. Until in my career, I never saw that fat bastard taking money from a client without Solving the case and being satisfied that he has really earned the money. But what the hell is this? some 'Lisper offers him a couple books (and think what, those are related to LISP which I here are related to black magic, No wonder; Wolfe will enjoy those and will give me hell solving all the mysteries after reading those), And he accepts those? Something is wrong.


Too many wise people have told me that I don't know beautiful code until I know Lisp. I definitely don't know Lisp, and I want to know beautiful code.


On Lisp available via Lulu http://www.lulu.com/content/3060872


Because I am an autodidact that happens to be rather poor at the moment, and has been meaning to master the use of lisp macros.


Intertwined, language and data, the moulding of thought.

Lisp


Whoever you give them to, we can bring up your generosity wherever anyone doubts that lispers are nice people.


I want to master the way of the Lisp Jedi.

  "These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more ... civilized age."
http://xkcd.com/297/


I have been losing sleep trying to find out what the missing figures from the online edition actually look like. Please put me out of my misery.


Students often express a vague interest in LISP when I teach AI. It would indeed be nice to have an extra book to loan out.


Practical Common Lisp is free online. Just give them a link.


I'll write a pair of reviews plus an additional article about LISP itself on bytepawn.com


Ive not been able to find copies of these books in India. Been trying for past 2 years.


I will sell them on ebay and donate the profits to charity.


I will hijack your shipment of books, and commit myself to studying them for years. After a long absence, I will emerge from my hideaway armed with a thorough understanding of Common Lisp. I will write a single macro, more profound than the deepest koan, more concise than the Reader's Digest Condensed Edition of a haiku. When executed, this macro will generate the source code to a second program -- a program so powerful it will be a Google killer that evolves into a Google killer-killer, all while running on a single 386, even if it isn't plugged in. My Series A will empty Fort Knox, exhaust the New York Fed, and leave me with the Crown Jewels of a thousand forgotten dynasties.

I will sell some of these on ebay, and donate the profits to charity. Top that.


Definitely too wordy.

And I find the statement about running on a single 386 unbelievable. You'll need at least 2.


lisp is cool.


learning lisp is my refuge from my VB6-centric workplace.




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