The Genius Of Lisp

The Genius Of Lisp

Cees de Groot has put together a masterpiece of scholarship.

— Richard P. Gabriel

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“The Genius Of Lisp” is a book published by Berksoft Publications on the history of arguably the most powerful programming language in the history of computing.

Here is some background by the author, Cees de Groot (that’s me! ;-)).

This page is the jumping board for content that complements the book.

If you want to read a sample, Amazon has got you covered.

Where to buy

We’re still working on extending the book’s reach, but here is a list of places where you can buy. Our preference is Lulu.com - it’s a Certified B Corp, great people, and of course buying there will maximize our share of what you pay :-).

Feedback

For now, please hop on Libera Chat and join the book’s IRC channel, ##geniusoflispbook. If you’re not setup for IRC, you can use Libera’s web client. You can also find me on Mastodon and Lemmy. There’s a “Show HN” topic on Hacker News which I’ll scour for feedback as well.

If there is enough interest, I’ll probably whip up a Discourse instance shortly. Let me now.

Source code

tar is available on Linux and macOS by default; on Windows you can use 7-Zip to extract, among others.

You can download a tar file with the source code used in the book.

Linkable bibliography

Here is a simple rendition of the book’s bibliography with clickable URLs.

Errata

Nobody is perfect, so we will collect and publish errata here. Please give feedback and help to make it a better book!