Bear in mind that this book explicitly expects readers to already be familiar with lisp, so if you've not got a lisp environment going already and need an intro

Bear in mind that this book explicitly expects readers to already be familiar with lisp, so if you've not got a lisp environment going already and need an introduction, you should really look elsewhere first. Touretzsky's book is a great place to start. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/