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The Land of Lisp music video (emacsworld.blogspot.com)
65 points by vamsee on Sept 5, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments




This video is what first convinced me to buy The Land of Lisp. What a great decision - the book is very well-done.


The book is very enjoyable. I only recently found out that Chapter 5 has already been available online in a limited, but colorized form as "Casting SPELs in Lisp", http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html

Conrad mentioned that in the next edition/errata he probably will add a (web?) chapter about setting up emacs/slime, but I havent heard any updates about that since the initial announcement.


The visuals are a lot better than the music.


I thought the music had a slight hardcore punk sensibility that made me smile. Had it not been for the length and the chorus it could have been a song by The Minutemen or a contemporary. Great musical comedy on the piano solo.


Lisp will let me "balance weasels on a rake"? [1] I'm sold! :)

[1] See video at 3m55s.


you know why LISP failed?

EMACS


At the risk of sounding like a *chan user:

>implying that LISP failed




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