[LUGSB] Lisp Links (+ recommended reading)

[John Zabroski]

--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Arjun G. Menon <arjungmenon at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Arjun G. Menon <arjungmenon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LUGSB] Lisp Links (+ recommended reading)
> To: johnzabroski at yahoo.com, "Linux Users Group at Stony Brook" <lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4:51 AM
> I'd like to add that a really good free e-book for a
> getting started
> on practical hands-on programming in LISP is
> "Practical Common Lisp"
> by Peter Seibel:
> 
> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
> 
> There's also a video on Google by the author of this
> book which
> highlights on some of the primary differences between LISP
> and other
> traditional imperative programming languages:
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=448441135356213813&q=lisp

I was going to say this book, too, b/c I remembered it was free, but when I checked the Apress website it was selling the e-book online.

The thing about learning Common Lisp is that it is like the C++ of Lisps: you have to learn it iteratively by focusing on small pieces of its language features.