> At ILC 2009, O'Reilly Media released a statement that they were
> soliciting proposals for books about Lisp. This is a reversal of their
> previous policy that explicitly stated that they were not interested
> in publishing Lisp books.
Wow, we're slowly getting mainstream.
> The book is going to be the "Lisp Web Development Cookbook," with many
> authors contributing chapters/recipes. It makes sense to break it down
> into several larger sections, for example one on using frameworks and
> Hunchentoot, one on generating and transforming JavaScript, one on CPS
> transformer tools, and a section on Clojure, and possibly Scheme. The
> focus is going to be on advice and techniques from people who have
> built public or commercial web systems in Lisp, and to demonstrate
> Lisp techniques that aren't possible using other tools.
I'd like to cut in here and show one of Weblocks' most distinguishing
features, its form mechanism.
> I want this book to really show how Lisp can be used to build up
> abstractions to program in the problem domain directly in ways that
> are not possible in other languages, with techniques and examples from
> real-world Lisp web systems.
In one web project of mine we have modelled a tree of resources
(documents and files) with cl-prevalence as backend. Modelling a
tree structure is comparatively hard in SQL. Seems like a good case
study to me.
Another project uses Elephant to model the backend storage of a
persistent browser game. With the Elephant MOP we get ACID and
never have to worry about saving and loading results (except
in some rare situations when speed must be optimized).
I also think that CL-WHO and YAML deserve a small chapter
even if it's not a case study.
Let me know what you think.
Leslie
PS: Does O"Reilly eat up all of its authors' rights? I'd hate
to be prevented from publishing stuff later elsewhere
online and/or as part of another book.
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