Lisp Hackers
Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers
by Vsevolod Dyomkin
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Overall, this should give an insight into why people use Lisp, as well as help the readers gain some new experience and improve as programmers. 
Book Description
This book is a collection of short interviews with 14 prominent individuals from different parts of the world, from Australia to Canada, and of different occupations, from low-level programmers to physicists and musicians, asking them a more-or-less similar set of questions on the following topics: their general attitude to programming, attitude towards and experience with Lisp, stories of real-world Lisp projects.Overall, this should give an insight into why people use Lisp, as well as help the readers gain some new experience and improve as programmers.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA). You can download Lisp Hackers ebook for free in PDF format (1.5 MB).
Table of Contents
A Short Intro
A Few Quotes
Zach Beane (USA)
Edi Weitz (Germany)
Slava Akhmechet (USA)
Pascal Costanza (Germany - Belgium)
Peter Seibel (USA)
Marijn Haverbeke (Netherlands - Germany)
François-René (Faré) Rideau (France - USA)
Daniel Barlow (UK)
Christophe Rhodes (UK)
Luke Gorrie (Australia - Sweeden - Switzerland)
Juan José García Ripoll (Spain)
John Fremlin (USA)
Vladimir Sedach (Russia - Canada - USA)
Marc Battyani (France - USA)
Afterword
Book Details
Title
Lisp Hackers
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Leanpub
Published
2013
Pages
77
Edition
1
Language
English
PDF Size
1.5 MB
License
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