>Btw., for a decade or so O'Reilly actively refused to publish Lisp books - which did not make them very liked in the community.
Interesting, any idea why? I would have thought they would have been happy to publish Lisp books, since they have published books on so many other computer subjects. I used to be a huge buyer and reader of their books. Only reason I can think of for them not wanting to publish Lisp books is perceived small market size - do you think that was it? But on the other hand, they did publish books on topics like XML-RPC, which was probably not very much used even when they published a book on it. I had that book, it was about using XML-RPC from multiple languages [1].
Interesting, any idea why? I would have thought they would have been happy to publish Lisp books, since they have published books on so many other computer subjects. I used to be a huge buyer and reader of their books. Only reason I can think of for them not wanting to publish Lisp books is perceived small market size - do you think that was it? But on the other hand, they did publish books on topics like XML-RPC, which was probably not very much used even when they published a book on it. I had that book, it was about using XML-RPC from multiple languages [1].
[1] Programming Web Services with XML-RPC:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001193.do