On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:37:50PM -0800, Peter Seibel wrote: > So, for whatever it's worth, here's what I was thinking vis a vis a > FAQ. I'm personally willing to do some work to produce a good Common > Lisp FAQ, mostly because I think it looks really dumb that when you > Google for "lisp faq" the first link is to the old c.l.l. FAQ which, > while good in many ways, hasn't been updated in almost 10 years. [snip] > However I also have a strong (and perhaps anachronistic) belief in > the value of editorial control. That is, I think the best FAQs are > those that are filtered through a single editorial sensibility-- > either a single person or a small number of like-minded individuals.
Agree on both. > (I learned early not to worry too much about getting the support of > 100% of Lispers when, while working on Practical Common Lisp, I got > an email from a prominent Lisper asking me what business I had > writing a book about Lisp.) Bummer! Well, you were right and they were wrong. Or maybe they were asking you about your business model. :) "Well, Apress hired me. Good enough for you?" "Sure, just wondering." Okay, maybe not. > If it doesn't seem too radically immodest I propose this: I'll set > up a mailing list for working on a FAQ and folks can send questions > and proposed answers to the list and discuss them and I'll act as > an editor, organizing them into a single FAQ document and tweaking > things for tone and technical correctness. Works for me. Sign me up. -- Larry _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
