I think 2 suggestions by plinkplonk in the original thread would be still relevant: Common Lisp - "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" by Peter N

I think 2 suggestions by plinkplonk in the original thread would be still relevant: Common Lisp - "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" by Peter Norvig and "On Lisp" by Paul Graham C - "C Interfaces and Implementations" Minix 1 and XMonad are also very good suggestions too.