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They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)
- Antibabelic 6mo agoThis book is a great introduction to Common Lisp and Lisp in general. Very no-nonsense. Happy to see it here!
- kjander79 6mo agoI just wish many of the software projects the code in the book depends on had been maintained. Portable Aserve and the Shoutcast server are two examples that come to mind off the top of my head, and of course the Lisp in a Box environment is long gone, and the replacements, like Portacle, are also getting left behind.
- pamcake 6mo agoAnother good introduction, full-nonsense: http://landoflisp.com/ http://landoflisp.com/
- Antibabelic 6mo agoLand of Lisp is actually a very, very bad introduction.
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- ChrisArchitect 6mo agoSome previous discussion: 2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850703 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644067 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096576
- deterministic 6mo agoI highly recommend writing your own toy version of LISP in whatever language you already know. Just enough to get the basic eval loop working (+ macros if you feel brave). It is fun and IMHO the best way to learn LISP. If you get stuck read through one of the many examples online and then try again without looking at those examples.