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Best place/resource to learn Lisp?

foundry27 7y ago
I’m sure a lot of people have their opinions about what the best introductory lisp text is. I won’t add to that list since a google search will give results from reviewers far more eloquent than I am. What I would like to suggest is that once you basically “get” how the prefix syntax works, and how to process lists, Doug Hoyte’s Let Over Lambda (https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc) is a book that can really help you -learn- lisp, to fundamentally understand what makes lisp so powerful compared to other languages. Incredibly perspective-expanding content when I first read it, and largely references many of the “great” lisp texts that helped build the language and its community into what they are today.
CalChris 7y ago
Little Lisper or Little Schemer.
voldacar 7y ago
SICP and PAIP are great if you work through them and do all the exercises instead of just skimming
- bear8642 7y ago
  For those not in the know SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs PAIP = Paradigms of AI Programming
nikofeyn 7y ago
regardless of experience, i recommend the little schemer, land of lisp, realm of racket, structure and interpretation of computer programs, and the courses how to code: simple data and how to code: complex data (don't be discouraged by the apparently simple titles as they cover the book how to design programs). if common lisp is really what you want, then i have lisp by winston and horn and common lisp by touretzky and find them quite nice, although i haven't gone through them, just peeking from time to time.
ccffpphh 7y ago
The Little Schemer with Racket
- bear8642 6y ago
  Could you elaborate why Racket? Not an implementation I've used.
capableweb 7y ago
Depends on the dialect. I learned lisp via clojure (in before all the "clojure is not a real lisp!" haters come in, please skip that) and first book I used was Clojure for the Brave and True which is a good introduction, fun to read, practical and is available for free to read online. Highly recommended! https://www.braveclojure.com/ https://www.braveclojure.com/
lispm 7y ago
uLisp itself has a lot of material to learn programming with it: http://www.ulisp.com/show?1AAO http://www.ulisp.com/show?1AAO For something like Common Lisp, which uLisp is similar to: COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf Practical Common Lisp http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Land of Lisp http://landoflisp.com http://landoflisp.com ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
newusertoday 7y ago
i like practical common lisp.

I’m sure a lot of people have their opinions about what the best introductory lisp text is. I won’t add to that list since a google search will give results from reviewers far more eloquent than I am. What I would like to suggest is that once you basically “get” how the prefix syntax works, and how to process lists, Doug Hoyte’s Let Over Lambda (https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc) is a book that can really help you -learn- lisp, to fundamentally understand what makes lisp so powerful compared to other languages. Incredibly perspective-expanding content when I first read it, and largely references many of the “great” lisp texts that helped build the language and its community into what they are today.

CalChris 7y ago

Little Lisper or Little Schemer.

voldacar 7y ago

SICP and PAIP are great if you work through them and do all the exercises instead of just skimming

bear8642 7y ago
For those not in the know SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs PAIP = Paradigms of AI Programming

nikofeyn 7y ago

regardless of experience, i recommend the little schemer, land of lisp, realm of racket, structure and interpretation of computer programs, and the courses how to code: simple data and how to code: complex data (don't be discouraged by the apparently simple titles as they cover the book how to design programs). if common lisp is really what you want, then i have lisp by winston and horn and common lisp by touretzky and find them quite nice, although i haven't gone through them, just peeking from time to time.

ccffpphh 7y ago

The Little Schemer with Racket

bear8642 6y ago
Could you elaborate why Racket? Not an implementation I've used.

capableweb 7y ago

Depends on the dialect. I learned lisp via clojure (in before all the "clojure is not a real lisp!" haters come in, please skip that) and first book I used was Clojure for the Brave and True which is a good introduction, fun to read, practical and is available for free to read online. Highly recommended! https://www.braveclojure.com/ https://www.braveclojure.com/

lispm 7y ago

uLisp itself has a lot of material to learn programming with it: http://www.ulisp.com/show?1AAO http://www.ulisp.com/show?1AAO For something like Common Lisp, which uLisp is similar to: COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf Practical Common Lisp http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Land of Lisp http://landoflisp.com http://landoflisp.com ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html

newusertoday 7y ago

i like practical common lisp.