Should I write a book on Python Metaprogramming ?

andrew cooke andrew at acooke.org
Mon May 5 16:06:26 EDT 2003


andrew cooke said:
[...]
> for me that's a much more interesting book than one that focuses on higher
> order abstractions (it also implies a very language-specific focus, hence
> my confusion about how the book could be general).  however, i get the
> impression i'm in a distinct minority (even more so considering i'm not
> that bothered about code examples :o) so it's probably not the book you
> should be writing... (otoh i can think of several books - sicp, cousineau
> + mauny - that already do that kind of thing very well, although not in
> python)

PS i guess i want "on lisp" rather than sicp, if you get my drift...

PPS http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ <- sicp

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