Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-22 Thread Terry Palfrey
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.dewrote: 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

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-21 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com wrote: BTW I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size (at Amazon some 870 pages or so) in self-publishing, so if I include the function reference (some 200 pages) and the rosettacode examples (huge),

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-21 Thread Laurent Artaud
Le 21/07/2012 20:05, Thorsten Jolitz a écrit : Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: BTW I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size (at Amazon some 870 pages or so) in self-publishing, so if I include the function reference (some 200 pages) and the rosettacode

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-21 Thread Terry Palfrey
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.comwrote: Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: I was thinking of some sort of graphic to imply works like a waterworks or something that was Cover design is definitely a topic where I would love to get input

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-21 Thread Terry Palfrey
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.comwrote: Laurent Artaud laurent.art...@free.fr writes: Le 21/07/2012 20:05, Thorsten Jolitz a écrit : Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: BTW I just found out that there is an upper limit for book size

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Rudy Hagedorn rudy.haged...@googlemail.com writes: Great idea! How does 'the picolisp compendium' sound as title? That makes two proposals then: - PicoLisp Bible - PicoLisp Compendium I must admit I like Compendium even better. -- cheers, Thorsten -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Yiorgos Adamopoulos yiorgos.adamopou...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com wrote: That makes two proposals then: - PicoLisp Bible - PicoLisp Compendium Just to make them three: - PicoLisp Works Nice double meaning ;) It would be

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten, - PicoLisp Works Nice double meaning ;) Indeed! It would be interesting to let the community vote, however, that seems to be a bit complicated. Maybe just let Alex decide what he likes best, as an easy solution? Or better you, as you are the editor? Cheers, - Alex --

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de writes: - PicoLisp Works Nice double meaning ;) Indeed! It would be interesting to let the community vote, however, that seems to be a bit complicated. Maybe just let Alex decide what he likes best, as an easy solution? Or better you, as you are

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: Will this include the Rosetta Code examples? Thats not a bad idea at all, but it depends a bit on the technical side. It would seem to be too much work if I had to transform the Rosetta Code html to Tex and then pick out the PicoLisp parts. But

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: Will this include the Rosetta Code examples? ... Thats not a bad idea at all, but it depends a bit on the technical side. It would seem to be too much work if I had to

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de wrote: Well, I have all the solutions I posted so far in a single large source file (rosettacode.l, 17194 lines as of today). Wa, this is quite a lot!!! Knowing it's one of the most concise, quite a lot of tasks must have

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de writes: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: Terry Palfrey terrypalfrey...@gmail.com writes: Will this include the Rosetta Code examples? ... Thats not a bad idea at all, but it depends a bit on the technical side. It

Re: PicoLisp Book

2012-07-20 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Christophe, Well, I have all the solutions I posted so far in a single large source file (rosettacode.l, 17194 lines as of today). Wa, this is quite a lot!!! Knowing it's one of the most concise, quite a lot of tasks must have been solved!!! Do you know how many? $ grep 'Task:'