alt Hacker NewsI think it is worth noting that Richard P. Gabriel wrote the forward to the book in question, and he quotes Guy L. Steele in that forward -- from the paper that you are suggesting the author might like.
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emigre • yesterday at 9:24 PM
Yes, so it makes sense that he'll like it, if he did not know the paper already.
Or you mean he'll probably already know about the paper? Yes, I guess that's probably the case...
I did not think about it too much to be honest, I just knew that article and thought that he would really like it if he had not read it. But I can imagine somebody writing a book on the history of Lisp has already read probably all articles around on the topic.
I just did not think about it for too long.