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Very cool project. I followed some link’s to Max’s personal web site: a renaissance man!

Many decades ago when I worked on a C++ team we hired very smart but not C++ guru employees. I wrote a portable graphics library so team members could write X11 apps without learning details that domain experts really didn’t need to learn. With my company’s permission, I rewrote that code on my own time and added support for Mac, and Windows. That code became the two editions of my Portable GUIs with C++ books for McGraw-Hill.

Sorry to rant so much off topic, but mostly being retired now I have been thinking of getting back into C++ (I usually use Lisp languages and Python now). I think this very cool project will be the start of a few very fun days of playing with C++ again.




I loved your books. Very clearly written with complete, usable examples. Models of their kind. I remember very well going into Barnes & Noble and sitting there with the books for a couple of hours before buying them, because it was on my own nickel and books have never been cheap.


Thank you!

BTW, all of the eBooks I have written in the last ten years can be read for free (click on book, then ‘Free to Read Online). I try to keep them updated.

https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson


Oh, that is fantastic!


Holy crap! It's the "Loving Common Lisp" author! Haven't had a chance to finish it yet, but it's awesome and I really appreciate the updates!


Thank you.




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