Oh my goodness. My old lisp tutorials are on HN again. Before anyone takes potshots, please understand that these tutorials have a very specific purpose: to g

Oh my goodness. My old lisp tutorials are on HN again. Before anyone takes potshots, please understand that these tutorials have a very specific purpose: to get our AI students up and coding AI projects as quickly as possible given what they know (C++/Java). So instead of talking up front about the things that make Lisp special, I'm basically talking about how to write C in Lisp. Hence, the tutorials don't ever discuss CLOS, macros, advanced packages, conditions, streams, the type lattice, SLIME, ASDF, Quicklisp, indeed any installable packages at all. Because we get to many of those things, and the wonders of Lisp, later in the class.