[Gardeners] FAQ

[Larry Clapp]

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