Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writing Common Lisp apps

Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by crispytx on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:38PM (#11824451)

Why is this on the front page of Hacker News? Isn't this an advertisement?

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Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by dang on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:09PM (#11824719)

Work in progress is a fine thing to have on Hacker News as long as there's a way for users to check the work out. In this case there's a sample chapter, which more than clears that bar. In fact we've added "Show HN" to the title, because this is the kind of thing that Show HN is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

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Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by AlexeyBrin on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:59PM (#11825132)

There is actually a link to read online on the same page https://leanpub.com/fullstacklisp/read

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Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by mordocai on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:45PM (#11824501)

It's free online and has a github repo under MIT license as well... so yeah it's an advertisement but for something that you can get for free.

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Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by crispytx on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:41PM (#11825862)

I thought it was just one free chapter. Maybe I was mistaken?

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Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by taranw85 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:13PM (#11824761)

Isn't everything an advertisement in that case? This is something cool and technical and useful.

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Re:Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress about writi... by theseatoms on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:17PM (#11824803)

Exactly. HN itself is one big advertisement.

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