feed2006 reading list
January 23, 2006 | 
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- Practical Common Lisp, Peter Siebel. I wasn't sure about ths one, but the fact that Siebel is an ex-Weblogic staffer changed my mind. Btw, would anyone like to recommend a Lisp for Linux/Windows? The non-portability thing sucks.
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- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590592395
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- Peter Siebel
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- Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, Peter Van Roy. I'm a fan of the multi-paradigm notion in programming, and am getting curious about Mozart. Plus this book is being compared favourably to SICP and pops up on LtU regulary. I've started it - wow, what's not to like about a book that takes time to criticize all the popular programming paradigms.
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- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262220695
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- Peter Van Roy
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- 0262220695
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- The Reasoned Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman. So much for all the weblogs and lists I'm subscribed to - I found this one by accident, published a few months ago. I love the series and can't wait to get my hands on this one which is about logic programming.
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- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262562146
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- Daniel P. Friedman
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- 0262562146
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- The Power of Events, David Luckham - this will be a re-read. I've built a few event based and notification driven systems now, but talking to Coté over the year, and looking around, makes me think I should write more about the eventing style; there seems to be interest. Most interesting thing in this book is a language for processing and reasoning about event streams.
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- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201727897
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- David Luckham
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- 0201727897
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- Java Concurrency in Practice, Brian Goetz. Really looking forward to this one
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- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321349601
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- Peter Van Roy
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- 0321349601
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- Light and Color in the Outdoors, Marcel Minnaert. I've had my eye on this for a while, the excerpt on amazon.com has finally convinced me.
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- http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387979352
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- Marcel Minnaert
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- 0387979352
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Here as a reminder/guilt-trip. I should set this up as a feed, a XOXO list will do for now. And it seems there are no Erlang books for the working stiff. Perhaps I'll write my own.
January 23, 2006 06:43 PM
Comments
Why not use Allegro?
Franz's pricing scheme for Allegro is obscure.
You download the very capable trial package, and they will perpetually extend your license for all book-learning. It's very unlikely any code in Practical Common Lisp will cause you to develop a severe AllegroCL dependency.
Otherwise, you stick to Ubuntu and use SBCL.
http://www.franklinmint.fm/blog/archives/000541.html
That's what I use. I like it.
You should totally write more about event style systems. We should get you on the podcast to intro that area of thought too, in addition to the yet to be recorded svn/cvs shoot-out ;)
The Cover of "reasoned Schemer" is very funny http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0262562146.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
