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Interview with DHH on ITConversation — and _On Lisp_ ebook free!

Its a anti Java bonanza!!

Cover your ipod in a flame retardant suit, because DHH has an interview (direct mp3 link) up on ITConversations entitled “Secrets Behind Ruby on Rails”. If you are web 2.0 compliant, go to the odeo channel to grab it (tho it hasn’t refreshed yet).

The secrets go something like this:

1. Create innovative web framework
2. Incite Java and PHP web developers to do your marketing for you
3. Profit!

Also, Paul Graham has posted On Lisp in its entirety. I read some of this at Borders the other day and it seemed like a very good intro to the language. Concise (under 400 pages not counting the reference), and easy to read.

“On Lisp”. That book, like Mr. Graham speaking, can be quite a mouthful. When you accept, and include, and embrace Mr. Graham’s view of the world, the book will be enjoyable. I enjoy it, but I had a bit of an overload of His Grahamness after some IT Conversations mp3s. (I think he reads a script when he presents stuff.) I have yet to finish the On Lisp book, I’ve been at it since somewhere in 2005.

But! Mr Graham *is* a programming rockstar. And how is Arc coming along, by the way? Next question: Will “Arc on Rails” kick Ruby off the board?

My best buddy and languages savant T-man observed: “Paul Graham often uses the word Lisp interchangeably with programming.”

On a side-note: I met great people at 43things when I wrote I was learning Lisp, and more exotic languages.

That’s a fair comment,… I never thought of it like that before.

tanks