Hi,

At ILC 2009, O'Reilly Media released a statement that they were soliciting proposals for books about Lisp. This is a reversal of their previous policy that explicitly stated that they were not interested in publishing Lisp books. I'm planning to put together a proposal for a book about web development in Lisp and am looking for contributors.

Here is the description of the project:

The book is going to be the "Lisp Web Development Cookbook," with many authors contributing chapters/recipes. It makes sense to break it down into several larger sections, for example one on using frameworks and Hunchentoot, one on generating and transforming JavaScript, one on CPS transformer tools, and a section on Clojure, and possibly Scheme. The focus is going to be on advice and techniques from people who have built public or commercial web systems in Lisp, and to demonstrate Lisp techniques that aren't possible using other tools.

I want this book to really show how Lisp can be used to build up abstractions to program in the problem domain directly in ways that are not possible in other languages, with techniques and examples from real-world Lisp web systems.

If you are interested in contributing a chapter or recipe (doesn't matter how short it is, half a page is ok if it does something cool), please let me know what you'd like to write about. If you know someone who might be interested in contributing, please pass this on.

I'm going to be soliciting potential contributors for the next two weeks. Once I have a list of prospective contributors, I'll put together a list of the subjects covered and an outline of the sections of the book, and send a proposal to O'Reilly.

Thank you, Vladimir Sedach