These days it's all "I am Groot" :-)

_waves a branch_

I saw your GitHub profile pic.

A while back I reported to a guy with the first name Jean-Luc. His avatar picture in HipChat (which was still a thing back then) was, of course, Picard...

I would expect it to be good - it's typeset with LaTeX and shipped as a regular (vector) PDF, the rest is on Lulu/Amazon but I don't expect issues there. To be completely honest, I'm still waiting for the author copy from Lulu, which I'm using as a final check before allowing wider distribution (channels that don't allow quick fixes). But I've ordered several books from Lulu in the past, and they were fine, to my (amateur) eyes looked the same as something from a regular publisher (the modern ones likely use the same/similar print-on-demand hardware).

Thanks for pointing it out. It's on the edits list for the next round :)

https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf is the chapter on Scheme, now on the book's site as a free sample. Hope you like it.

https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf (and of course the stuff that Amazon has in their preview, which amazingly goes all the way through the introductory chapter but yeah, misses something meatier than that).

That's great, thank you so much! Looks like a joy to read, and zero complaints or feedback. Now awaiting the arrival of my copy :)

Yup, https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf hopefully serves you better.

It does. Great. Thanks for the quick update.

Thanks! I'm getting a lot of references here, I guess a next edition will at the very least come with a longer bibliography :)

People requested more sample material than Amazon provides, and that's a perfectly understandable request. Chapter 8, about Scheme, it is. https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf is where you can read it.

Soo.... the book has a bit of a history (see the acknowledgements). When I worked with a publisher, "academic" things like a bibliography were somewhat de-emphasized and the tooling was not nearly as nice as, well, BibTeX. So we went for a very short bibliography containing works that were directly quoted. I did read the paper way back when doing research for the first chapters, but over the years the reference got lost and that's the main reason it didn't make it in.

But you're right, it (and many, many, _many_ other things) does belong in the bibliography.

Can i get it in pdf form, or at least, can i get a copy of the epub, instead of being helf hostage to a proprietary reading walled garden like Amazon. Does Nook allow you to download the epub file? But, I’d prefer pdf.

The Kobo version is a DRM free epub, so you can read it wherever you like. I'm still figuring out how/where to sell a PDF, because I really, really, _really_ do not like epub for technical books. It's ok for novels, at best. Tips welcome.

https://berksoft.ca/gol/genius-of-lisp-chapter-8.pdf has a free chapter.

Polar.sh's pretty easy to set up! It was originally built with selling download links in mind (for stuff like OSS software).

Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

Turns out that for me, Shopify was even easier, so that's sorted now. In any case, thanks for pushing me into the right direction.

I'm gonna check it out, thanks.

Yup, you can now. berksoft.ca/gol has a link to a (DRM free) PDF version.

That's why I said "arguably", of course.

But, to be honest: Forth is great, but... well... there's no "easy mode" Forth. Whereas there is "easy mode" Scheme - even SICP starts with a very simple and gentle up ramp - so I'd argue to give the honours to Lisp (I'm putting Smalltalk in second place). But that's my personal opinion, I get to put it on my book cover, that's all :-)