take the shot?

Is Nic shilling for us, or what? :)

Why don't we just announce the Cookbook on c.l.s today?

The Cookbook is something that's been worked on for awhile,
which makes it different from most project ideas that are
tossed out on c.l.s when this kind of thread comes up.

I volunteer Anton, since Noel had to do it last time. :)
Actually, I think Anton is a more frequent c.l.s poster.
But either of you could do it.

The only reason I can think of to delay is if we first
want to substantially change our PLT bias.

Oh, and Monday is a national holiday in the US, but that
might mean as many people with extra discretionary Scheme
time as it does people away for the long weekend.


> Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
> Subject: Re: Scheme for programmers book, (was Re: some newbie questions
>  about scheme)
> From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier-Owduc+oEu1ECw9PIsEkHj9Bc4/[email protected]>
> Date: 03 Sep 2004 11:00:52 +0100
> Message-ID: <87acw7smcr.fsf-Owduc+oEu1ECw9PIsEkHj9Bc4/[email protected]>
> 
> David Rush <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Nic Ferrier <nferrier-Owduc+oEu1ECw9PIsEkHj9Bc4/[email protected]> writes:
> > > For a while now I've wanted to write "Scheme for programmers" (C for
> > > Programmers by Leendert Ammeraal was one of my favourite C books).
> > ...
> > > I wonder what people here think of the idea.
> > 
> > What's relevant is not what c.l.s thinks but what a publisher would
> > think (assuming you want to make money from such a text). What a
> > publisher will think is: *no market*. 
> 
> That's not relevant since I have no particular desire to make money
> from it.
> 
> It would be extreemly valuable for me to know the experiences of other
> c.l.s'ers in coming across programmers who were interested in learning
> Scheme but were put off by the available texts.
> 
> So that's you told   /8->
> 
> > IIRC, O'Reilly had a "no more lisp books" policy in place a couple of
> > years ago. Dunno if that still applies; I can't find it on their
> > site.
> 
> I couldn't care less about that.
> 
> Nic


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