* you don't need to read AMOP to use CLOS. It's there if you want to know 'MORE'. Much more. Much more than you ever wanted to know about reflective OOP. Alan K

* you don't need to read AMOP to use CLOS. It's there if you want to know 'MORE'. Much more. Much more than you ever wanted to know about reflective OOP. Alan Kay of Smalltalk fame recommended the book as the best book on objected-oriented technology in a decade. ordering it over your book store is easy. But I don't recommend it to anyone wanting to learn Lisp. Certainly not. The AMOP teaches you CLOS assuming you already know CLOS. In the words of Edmund Blackadder describing Johnson's dictionary, it is the most pointless book since "How to learn French" was translated into Fresh. And therein lies its brilliance.