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submitted 1 month ago by cdegroot@lemmy.ca to c/lisp@lemmy.ml

Today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

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[-] simonced@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I make automation tools at work with Racket.
It's running on scheme, and there is an editor provided with it.
It’s very useful and it's quick to prototype algos or just doing simle checks because of the REPL.
It's obligatory to know if you're a programmer IMO, it opens your mind to different ways of thinking, which is unvaluable.

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