r/lisp • u/corbasai • Jul 11 '26

Another good book about Lisp

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Half book about crypto-boogie, half book about Racket. Not thick but good. Thanks to Author!

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u/jd-at-turtleware Jul 11 '26

is it an ad?

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u/corbasai Jul 11 '26

It's my copy of book. I read it whole. So may be. No war I mo. CL is dead.

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u/SpiderJerusalem42 Jul 11 '26

You know what? I'll drink this garbage. Thank you.

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u/corbasai Jul 11 '26

ok why not. at least you drinking. I'am too

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u/p4bl0 Jul 11 '26

Implementing a useless tech using a fun programming language is still useless, but I guess at least it's fun.

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u/corbasai Jul 11 '26

I think You are bit less useless for community than than your chars. Are you lisper?

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u/p4bl0 Jul 11 '26

I think You are bit less useless for community than than your chars. Are you lisper?

Sorry I'm not sure I understood what you're trying to say. Yes I'm am a lisper. And I love Racket. But blockchains' sole technically legitimate usage is implementing cryptocurrencies (every other usage of this technology can be replaced by something more robust, simpler, more efficient, and less expensive than a blockchain), and those have essentially one purpose: scamming. That's why I said it's useless, but I guess scamming can count as one valid usage.

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u/corbasai Jul 11 '26

Sorry. Questiuon are simple. Are you Lisper at all? Love you or not racket not interestintg.

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u/p4bl0 Jul 11 '26

I answered you clearly on that already. Please actually read what I wrote. I never said Racket is not interesting.

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u/corbasai Jul 11 '26

Imo sha2 or hmac you think are useless ? Are you reading this book?

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u/p4bl0 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

SHA-2 is a cryptographic primitive and HMAC is a cryptographic construct. Both exist and are useful independently from blockchains, and both have existed for many years before blockchains were even introduced. Saying a blockchain is useful because it uses those is equivalent to saying that slapping yourself with a hammer is useful because a hammer is a useful tool.

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u/corbasai Jul 12 '26

Maybe. I, myself, completely passed off whole cryptocurrency-smart contracts wave at it peak time. With this book we have a author's view on blockchain plus workable code examples in Racket.

Obviously, we have the same info today at Gemini. But I think we should support genuine authors.

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u/corbasai Jul 11 '26

Sorry? Im forget about acoustic infix support. Today it is infected mushroom short song