[Bese-devel] Learning Lisp

Julian Stecklina der_julian at web.de
Wed Sep 21 02:18:30 UTC 2005


On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:42:50 -0400
Waldo Rubinstein <waldo at trianet.net> wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> I apologize for being a bit off topic from the mailing list  
> objective's, but I hope your answers won't take too much of your time.
> 
> As some of you know, I'm trying to catch up to Lisp and UCW at warp  
> speed and I'm wondering if you can recommend a good book for
> learning Lisp and another good reference book that I can go back and
> forth to get simple answers from?

I learnt Common Lisp with Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp which is a
gentle introduction that touches the most important parts of CL. I
really like this book. Although it does include a reference, which I had
used at the beginning, C-c C-d h replaced it quite fast. ;)

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I
need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop. - Alan Perlis



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