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hermitcrab
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Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
The title "Lisp from nothing"
doesn't seem to fit with:
"INTENDED AUDIENCE This is not an introduction to LISP."
on page 10.
gentooflux
5 months ago
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Nothing as in "from scratch", as opposed to Nothing as in "Visual Basic's NULL".
nils-m-holm
5 months ago
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Yes, the book is about the bootstrapping of LISP, both in a historical and practical context. Hence "from nothing".
kazinator
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Would you also think that "Energy from Nothing" must be an introductory physics text? :)
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doesn't seem to fit with:
"INTENDED AUDIENCE This is not an introduction to LISP."
on page 10.