I'm sorry but I never liked PCL that much. It certainly shows some impressive Lisp techniques, and surely it will impress anyone who reads it about Lisp capabi

I'm sorry but I never liked PCL that much. It certainly shows some impressive Lisp techniques, and surely it will impress anyone who reads it about Lisp capabilities. The PCL made me feel awe about what Lisp can do. But not about what I could do with Lisp myself. PCL doesn't really help the reader to really understand how all that code works to the point where the reader could write it without the writer's help. I found this book: Lisp, An Interactive Approach https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/ https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/ a better pedagogical tool to learn Lisp, and it guides the reader all the way, tests him, and makes him write all the needed code before going to the next chapter. It's not a showcase like the PCL book, but it imparts the reader with the ability to write a similar showcase himself. The 'An Interactive Approach' book made me grok the power of Lisp in a way no other book could. It made me feel powerful and confident about what I could do with Lisp.