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Jun 28, 2010
Great book for a rather powerful yet misunderstood language: I'm a programmer comming from a procedural and OOP background. Some features of Lisp are completely mind-blowing if not right out bizzarre. Even if you're not in the field of AI, Neural Nets, etc. This book teaches you how to use Lisp as a "common," all purpose language.
Grahams's style and exposition are bar-none. As some one already said, the examples might come across as simplistic or even trivial. But after realizing what More...
Grahams's style and exposition are bar-none. As some one already said, the examples might come across as simplistic or even trivial. But after realizing what More...
Jul 13, 2010
John
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If you are going to read one book on Lisps or functional programming, it should be Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. If you are going to read a second book, you should reread SICP. When you are ready for a third book, this is a pretty good option. This is a better book than Programming Clojure or any of the various scheme books I have read, but it is perhaps too focused on the particulars of Common LISP and not about functional programming more broadly, so there might not be as
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Jan 14, 2010
Christoffer
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This is an okay book describing the language and libraries of Common Lisp. It also shows how to utilize all this for some non-trivial cases to make the best use of the language possible.
But sometimes I got a bit distracted by Grahams's smug way of writing. But that's a recurring theme in Lisp texts as far as I've seen.
This book did not make me want to code in Lisp (SICP did a much better work at that).
But sometimes I got a bit distracted by Grahams's smug way of writing. But that's a recurring theme in Lisp texts as far as I've seen.
This book did not make me want to code in Lisp (SICP did a much better work at that).
Dec 13, 2008
Jonathan
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A great book to introduce you to Common Lisp. It will get you started on the right footing, and it's worth noting where some of the style points are, because you'll most likely end up looking for those parts again.
Jul 04, 2009
Tim
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This book and Pete Seibel's Practical Common Lisp are way to common lisp. Perhaps now Stu Halloway's Programming Clojure should join these.
May 29, 2008
Antonio
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Mandatory book on Common Lisp. Textbook for the "Programación No-Procedural" course at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.
Jul 06, 2010
Ryan
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Common Lisp demonstrates how an elegant concept can snowball into an unmanageable mess. This book documents that mess well.
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