I thought you might be interested in this. I emailed Apress to see about OnLisp, since I'd heard they were going to be reprinting it this Summer. As you can see, the folks at Apress are quite friendly, and they responded very quickly. Unfortunately the book will not be out until later. PDFs will have to do for now!
Yours,
Zellyn Hunter
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Hi Zellyn,
Thanks for writing Apress with your book questions. We will be republishing Paul Graham's book, but it will probably publish closer to the end of the year or early next year. We are going to print a new edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David Margolies due to publish late September. After that, we plan on publishing at least one more Lisp book in addition to Paul Graham's.
We also hope to have our Apress discussion forums up before long so you can find out more that way. I will keep your inquiry on file and hope to be able to notify you personally on any new developments.
Best regards, Doris Doris Wong Product Manager Apress
> We are going to print a new > edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David > Margolies due to publish late September.
I did not even know that there was a current edition and such a thing. Is this referring to the Graham text (in which case "Reference Book" should not have been capitalized, as it was intended in a generic sense rather than as part of the title)?
Or is this the actual ANSI document that is supposedly prohibitively costly, and compared to which the HyperSpec seems to be considered preferable, more readable, and more useful? If so, I wonder whether the "new edition" would overcome the disadvantages of the current.
Do the existing copies of On Lisp really change hands nowadays at the prices shown on Amazon --- currently $150 to $800+?
Zellyn Hunter wrote: > I thought you might be interested in this. I emailed Apress to see > about OnLisp, since I'd heard they were going to be reprinting it this > Summer. As you can see, the folks at Apress are quite friendly, and > they responded very quickly. Unfortunately the book will not be out > until later. PDFs will have to do for now!
> Yours,
> Zellyn Hunter
> ----------------------
> Hi Zellyn,
> Thanks for writing Apress with your book questions. We will be > republishing Paul Graham's book, but it will probably publish closer > to the end of the year or early next year. We are going to print a new > edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David > Margolies due to publish late September. After that, we plan on > publishing at least one more Lisp book in addition to Paul Graham's.
> We also hope to have our Apress discussion forums up before long so > you can find out more that way. I will keep your inquiry on file and > hope to be able to notify you personally on any new developments.
> Best regards, > Doris > Doris Wong > Product Manager > Apress
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carh...@yahoo.com (c hore) writes: > > We are going to print a new > > edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David > > Margolies due to publish late September.
> I did not even know that there was a current edition > and such a thing. Is this referring to the Graham text > (in which case "Reference Book" should not have been > capitalized, as it was intended in a generic sense > rather than as part of the title)?
The name of the original was "Common Lisp The Reference" (CLtR, for short). Printed in 1988 by Addison-Wesley, authored by Franz.
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