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As someone that started learning lisp with this book I recommend not starting with this book, and instead reading Practical Common Lisp. Some of the tutorials
by ludston 8y ago
As someone that started learning lisp with this book I recommend not starting with this book, and instead reading Practical Common Lisp.
Some of the tutorials in the book use some fairy awkward conventions (e.g. using lists of symbols to create strings).
I enjoyed the book, but had to unlearn some things afterwards.
- ngcc_hk 8y agoI thought it is to help to learn list manipulation. String is great but is a super coat. But I do agree this should not be the only book. In fact Piap is better. The whole Common Lisp learning is hindered by suddenly you have a function that do magic. And nil does not help. Really wish there is a lisp book learning using the kernel (lisp 1.5 which can be easily implemented using itself).
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoIt's not a book, but there is Graham's short paper "The Roots of Lisp" - http://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html http://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html which is something of this sort: you can more or less implement something like lisp 1.5 in CL or elisp etc. following this paper.