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- HailfireX, on 10/10/2007, -4/+74"Nerds outnumber muggles."
Inaccurate. Using the term "muggles" makes you a nerd to begin with. - Rosamilia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+48spoiler : brackets kill dumbledore
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+41That's because everyone lined up to get Deathly Hallows at midnight all on the same day. DH sold more in a few hours than this Lisp book will in it's entire publication.
- yargthepirate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28When I looked at the site it was also being outsold by "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science". I'd guess all the Potterheads have bought and read it by now, so it doesn't surprise me that the sales would have dropped. Still enough for JK Rowling to take baths in giant tubs full of money.
- Pzycho, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17By Harry Potter logic, nerds are a subset of muggles; by real-world logic, muggles are a subset of nerds.
- madeingermany, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Lots of Irritating and Silly Parentheses
- gnuvince, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Man I prefer the crowd at programming.reddit.com, nobody would ever say that.
- estacado, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10LISP dies on page 481.
- toolegittoquit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10For UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/ it is 'Indian Food Made Easy' beating Potter...
- drgnpaladin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11It will be quite difficult to read with all the parenthesis
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I'm amazed no one has posted this yet: http://xkcd.com/297/
- toolegittoquit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8That's for Amazon.CA... Amazon.COM has potter at the top. http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/
- madstringer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7LISP is a programming language. If you knew it, you'd be making a lot more money than you are now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP - Gordin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7And, while Harry Potter is in 3rd place, there is another Harry Potter DH in the 6th place (Adult cover). The addition of those two most probably would change the list.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yes but there are a million Lisp dialects and if you combine them all then we're back to square one.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10You're in the programming section and haven't heard of Lisp?!?
It's not used a lot but isn't completely obscure and unknown. It is still considered by many to be the greatest programming language ever made. Remember all that fuss people were making about C# delegates, Lisp did that in the 60's. In fact most of modern computing originally started with Lisp (lambda functions and closures, control structures, garbage collection etc) and in all likelihood the things Lisp has which haven't been widely adopted yet (we are seeing a steady increase in the interactive, incremental compilation languages) will be in the future.
The reason Lisp isn't used much is because during the critical stage it had about 9B dialects and standardisation was slow. Also it takes time to learn to become a Lisp programmer compared to say C where learning to do it is easy but actually doing it is like banging your head against a brick wall. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Bah, I posted it 2 minutes after you. There's this as well
http://xkcd.com/224/ - jsd8cc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Cable Guy: [Steven punches him] You're gonna have to do better than that, Steven. Steven. St- st-...my lisp is gone!
[Steven punches him again]
Cable Guy: You thtupid thon of a bitch! - Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"Also it takes time to learn to become a Lisp programmer compared to say C where learning to do it is easy but actually doing it is like banging your head against a brick wall."
Which language are you talking about here?
LISP is actually *very* easy to learn... in a way. You can learn the entire language in less than an hour -- the problem comes with actually understanding the *implications* of what you just learned. - dezmd, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8Or maybe the fact that Americans have better ***** to do than sit inside and learn LISP while trapped in by 8 feet of snow for half the year. ;)
Cheers. - chebuctonian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Oh, some costumes. Look at the hat this prof has: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
(Ok, that's Scheme, but it's close enough. And you should see some of the costmes they wear. For more info on Lisp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language ) - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If you're too old and too awesome to be seen reading Harry Potter,
Print these out and you can safely read your Potter in front of all those ex Navy SEALS at the local strip club:
http://www.rankthehot.com/_Do_you_love_Harry_Potter_but_think_you_re_too_old_and_too_awesome_to_be_seen_reading_the_books - brycelb, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8I can't get on board with this. While I have almost no idea what LISP is (even after reading the book description) I doubt that people are jumping into LISP costumes while they stand in line to get a copy.
- chebuctonian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4cheap meds and cheap lisp books!
- bitweever, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Went ahead and ordered me a copy. Even with shipping to the US, it only came to C$13.95, or about $13.20US. Not bad for a book that's still over $50 on Amazon.com
- ahhell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Sucks it?
Sounds like you need the Lisp book. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The force is with Lisp though, HP is mere parlour tricks.
http://xkcd.com/297/ - Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Google is your friend.
- eric0213, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
No. - KevenM, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Could also be an indication that Amazon.ca is dealing in REALLY low quantities of everything...
Indigo.ca anyone? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That, and nerds are muggles.
- eclectro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dungeon and Dragons, Yes. Harry Potter no.
- loconet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Says a lot about the intellect of Canadians vs Americas ;)
- theOster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3autocad and it's sisters are still rife with LISP. it's very powerful in this and even AI applications (from what i hear)
- leffunov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It obvious why it's not up there, Potter fans pick up the books immediately through book stores or perorder.
No die hard fan orders a book a month later from a website to wait for delivery - madeingermany, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Hardly newsworthy....
Everyone that wanted a HP book already got one.
The new semester is about to start, so Lisp and Probability Theory are on the bestseller list. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well that's sort of the point. You could learn Lisp macros quickly but learning to use them well takes time. There isn't really a way to use C macros well so they don't count at all. Most constructs in C are straightforward but lack power. With Lisp you find yourself spending less time writing code and more time thinking.
Really the difference is in C you twiddle bits. There isn't really much to deal with there, everything is concrete and takes a lot of straight forward code to do simple things. With Lisp you can quickly put together complex solutions but need to spend more time thinking. - nkovacs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2All the nerds have already read Harry Potter and are now onto learning LISP.
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4No, but if you are one, chances are you know more about proper and effective structuring of programs than the average CS-farm graduate, making you a highly sought-after commodity.
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Emacs is an entire OS built over LISP. You can try a (not so good) AI on it, using M-x doctor
- Ploosheeta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Whath lithp in thmall piethes?
- DoTheFandango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2(CAR ("you are an idiot" "you are not an idiot"))
- yargthepirate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2he probably just saw it on the front page
- Eleo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Both of those books are $40-$50 on Amazon.com. I would really like to get both of them. After shipping the price is about $20 CDN.
- xutopia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2GMorgan beat me to it!! That's my all time favorite from xkcd!
- Novagenesis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1(concatenate "you " (if 1 "are " "are not ") "an " "idiot!")
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I am the Pink Rattlethnake! Don't thtep on me or I'll bite you I thwear! Hith! Hith!
- chebuctonian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1For some reason, Amazon does their best seller on a country by country basis. Although if you cared about the book on Lisp, I'm sure they'd let you order it.
- quentinmcalmott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1(defun fan-fiction fun lst (if (null (cdr lst)) (fun (car lst)) (fun (car lst) (fan-fiction fun (cdr lst)))))
(fan-fiction (lambda (name) (print (list 'Well 'done, name))) (list 'McCarthy 'Hart 'Levin)) - Novagenesis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Of course they have something better to do.
They put on robes, pull out wands, and run around looking to find a copy of a kid's book. -
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