Most likely not: “The Little Book of …” has been a publisher’s standby since the nineteenth century (at least).

I thought the title was an homage to François Fleuret's Little Book of Deep Learning.

https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html

I'm assuming it's more in line with The Little Schemer series of books (https://felleisen.org/matthias/BTLS-index.html) or maybe the little book of deep learning (https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html)?

The Little Schemer, The Little Typer, The Little Reasoner, The Little Proover The Little MLer ...

It has been going on for a while in Lispy land

No, it's _obviously_ homage to the Little Liddel[0].

0. https://archive.org/details/lexiconabridgedf00liddrich

Love that masterpiece

My mind immediately went to the "Li'l Bastard General Mischief Kit" from The Simpsons.

https://imgur.com/zMTEE

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