On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:25:53PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > > > I think 'PicoLisp Works' would work pretty well as a title ... > > Yes, a nice title indeed. > The original call for papers went like this from Thorsten: PicoLisp Bible - Call for Papers "I'm on my way to publish (in cooperation with Alex) a 'PicoLisp Bible' with (almost) everything written about PicoLisp collected and organized in one single book. I will be the editor (and author of a few articles from the wiki), most of the articles will be (of course) from Alex, but e.g. Henrik gave the permission to include his tutorial series on ProDevTips too. Every article will be published under the name of its author, I'm only the editor who merges everything together. It should be more or less a non-profit project, the (likely) costs will be paid for by me, the (unlikely) profits will reimburse me for all the work to put the book together. So, if you have anything PicoLisp related in your mind you always wanted to write an article or essay about - now would be the perfect time. Maybe you have written a library and want for explain its use, or you can describe an interesting practical use case, or maybe your IDE/Editor setup for PicoLisp. There are so many interesting aspects about PicoLisp that would be worth to document. The idea is that you write your articles in the 'articles and essays' section of the PicoLisp wiki, from where it is easy to download them as tex files (to be merged into the book). So this is a CALL FOR PAPERS for the 'PicoLisp Bible', the deadline would be (more or less) the 1st of September, please let me (us) know if you are interested and planning to contribute something." Once that goal has been achieved ie, assembly, then I think it would be logical to move forward and build on that. Having continuing scaling goals seems appropriate. I'm thinking ahead some more and wanting some sort of directed introduction for PicoLisp different from the "Radical Approach" paper that has served so well up til now. I'm thinking more generic and marketing/sale's pitchy. Sorry, I butcher "english" on a daily basis. I keep a lot of idea files and snippets about and offer this one for idea generation:" http://pastebin.ca/2173683 If this is going to hit two volumes, why not plan for 3? What is the audience, could a high school programming class adopt this as a guide to programming? How about a CS prof doing a unit on scripting languages? Third volume a workbook? Ya, all this sounds like a lot of work but if you build a 15 to 30 minute a day habit to look for material, write an example, create a GUI element or graphic table (x) four to seven people at the end of 6 months... Another discussion I am listening in on right now is about "Shen" which is an outgrowth of Qi II where they are on about making a new book, Qi II has a book available at: http://www.fast-print.net/bookshop/277/functional-programming-in-qi-2nd-ed The actual discussion that parallels this one is pasted here for your convenience: http://pastebin.ca/2173697 Hope this provides some fodder for the final decisions on the book. Terry
