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The book uses common lisp, so you'll need to know how to read that. Otherwise I think you should be fine. It's not a book about idioms or coding styles, but abo
by nonrecursive 13y ago
The book uses common lisp, so you'll need to know how to read that. Otherwise I think you should be fine. It's not a book about idioms or coding styles, but about thinking in lisp. If the code examples are confusing, it'll be because you're not sure what something means in common lisp or because you're learning new ideas, not because the code is poorly written. So, if you treat it as a book of ideas as opposed to "teach yourself x language in 24 hours", you should be OK :)
- officemonkey 13y agoHowever, if you ARE looking for a "teach yourself Lisp in 24 hours" type of book, you could do a lot worse than "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel (http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Common-Lisp-Peter-Seibel/dp/1590592395 http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Common-Lisp-Peter-Seibel/dp/...).
- socillion 13y agoPCL is also available for free at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
- 6d0debc071 13y agoAnother rec: Land of Lisp - http://landoflisp.com/ http://landoflisp.com/ - is also very good if you're looking to get up to speed with the absolute bare bones, so to speak, fairly quickly.
- outworlder 13y agoI love the comic: http://landoflisp.com/#guilds http://landoflisp.com/#guilds