Help! I’ve been nerd-sniped. Cees de Groot wrote a history book about the Lisp programming language.
Today I am launching my book The Genius of Lisp and this is some background on why I set about writing Yet Another Computer History Book.
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So, to wrap up a long story, I noticed that there’s a shortage of formal tech history education and a shortage of history books for techies. I felt I could write a book and wanted to try it, so I jumped into what I felt was a niche and started writing a book that talks about how the second oldest programming language came about. With stories about the people behind it, but also all the gory details: math, code, the works. It is one thing to read about “The Maxwell Equations of Computer Science”, it is another thing to implement them. At least, that’s how I feel. I’ve always been a hands-on person, I guess.
I learned Scheme directly from Jerry Sussman. I wrote code on an HP Chipmunk, a TI Explorer, and a Symbolics Lisp Machine. I have dead tree editions of both Lisp books by Paul Graham. So yes, yes I must buy this book. You should too. Grab a copy from Lulu.
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