Does anyone know where I can get ahold of the On Lisp book by Paul
Graham? It seems to be out of print, and I haven't been able to track it
down anywhere...
Cory Spencer <········@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote in message news:<············@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>...
> Does anyone know where I can get ahold of the On Lisp book by Paul
> Graham? It seems to be out of print, and I haven't been able to track it
> down anywhere...
From Paul Graham's FAQ at http://www.paulgraham.com/faq.html :
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Where can I get a copy of On Lisp?
Unfortunately it is out of print, and used copies seem hard to find.
If you like I can put you on this page, which has led to some people
getting copies. Copies also sometimes come up for sale at eBay.
I got the rights back from the publishers and plan to put it online,
but at the moment I'm too busy with Arc.
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Cheers.
On 25 Jan 2002 19:41:52 GMT, Cory Spencer
<········@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get ahold of the On Lisp book by Paul
>Graham? It seems to be out of print, and I haven't been able to track it
>down anywhere...
>
How much of a hutty are you?
Paul Graham has already indicated that he will put the book on his web
site when he has the time.
There are two alternates: try to outbid some or go to a library and
copying it.
I have no qualms about copying a book that is out of print and likely
never to be in print again. The situation right now is disgusting,
akin to ticket scalpers.
>> Does anyone know where I can get ahold of the On Lisp book by Paul
>> Graham? It seems to be out of print, and I haven't been able to track
>> it down anywhere...
>>
> How much of a hutty are you?
Since I have no idea what a "hutty" is, I'm not exactly sure how to take
that...
> Paul Graham has already indicated that he will put the book on his web
> site when he has the time.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the info.
> I have no qualms about copying a book that is out of print and likely
> never to be in print again. The situation right now is disgusting,
> akin to ticket scalpers.
I never intended to copy the book, I wanted a real live print edition for
my reading pleasure.
Cory Spencer <········@interchange.ubc.ca> writes:
> >> Does anyone know where I can get ahold of the On Lisp book by
> >> Paul Graham? It seems to be out of print, and I haven't been
> >> able to track it down anywhere...
> > How much of a hutty are you?
> Since I have no idea what a "hutty" is, I'm not exactly sure how to
> take that...
I suspect that it's something that gets typed when someone else is in
"too much of a hutty."
Note also the adjacency, on typical QWERTY keyboards, of the "R" key
and the "T" key, and ask yourself what might happen if you ran that
through:
(defun ttr (string)
(loop for ch across string
do (format t "~C" (if (char= ch #\t) #\r ch))))
> > Paul Graham has already indicated that he will put the book on his
> > web site when he has the time.
> I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the info.
A while back, there was a sizable "flame war" where some annoying
people felt that because _On Lisp_ was out of print, it was to be
_assumed_ that Paul Graham should _obviously_ make it available on the
web, gratis.
Apparently he's going to do so, which is well and nice; the fact that
this is happening is a nice and _generous_ thing that he's doing.
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······@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L Olczyk) wrote:
>How much of a hutty are you?
>Paul Graham has already indicated that he will put the book on his web
>site when he has the time.
How long does it take to scan a book ?
Perhaps one of us can scan it in and post it on a web site.
Assuming of course, that Paul Graham gives consent ...
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······@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L Olczyk) wrote:
>How much of a hutty are you?
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From: Brian P Templeton
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> ······@interaccess.com (Thaddeus L Olczyk) wrote:
>
>>How much of a hutty are you?
>>Paul Graham has already indicated that he will put the book on his web
>>site when he has the time.
>
> Perhaps one of us can scan it in and post it on a web site.
> Assuming of course, that Paul Graham gives consent ...
>
Wouldn't it be better for Graham to post the LaTeX, TeX, Groff, Lout,
Scribe, or whatever files he used to generate the printed version? I
assume he didn't write it by hand :), and that would allow multiple
output formats for many of those typesetting languages, and
higher-quality output.
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