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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by max_wen on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:55PM (#19679362)
I nearly started working through that, would you mind sharing why you think it is a bad book? thx
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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by pcr910303 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:31AM (#19679766)
I’m pretty sure it’s because the lisp that book makes isn’t an exact lisp; There are many features lacking and some fundamental concepts are wrongly implemented; However for developing C skills, it’s pretty good. Wouldn’t recommend learning Lisp with that though.
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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by max_wen on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @10:13AM (#19682716)
oh you're correct it is meant to develop C skills not learn Lisp
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Re:Land of Lisp (2010) by kazinator on Thursday April 18, 2019 @07:59PM (#19695869)
The 900-something lines of C code documented by the book Interpreting Lisp, which can now be found on Github, is not something I would recommend for teaching C beginners.

From a best practices point of view, it is pretty awful.

https://github.com/Apress/interpreting-lisp

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