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A comment on Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme to go for?.

Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme to go for? by CyberFonic on Saturday July 09, 2016 @08:43AM (#12061124)
Yes, there are a lot of implementations, but in principle they are very similar. The big divide is between Common Lisp and Scheme. For learning Scheme has the edge, principally because of educational books like SCIP. CL is more widely used for production code.

GNU Guile is good. However, I think Racket has better documentation and learning resources. Both CL and Scheme are defined by standards so once you are familiar with one implementation you can pick up another with minimal learning curve.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme to go for? by lispm on Saturday July 09, 2016 @02:12PM (#12062557)
Scheme has an edge for education in computer science (which has different goals than teaching you actual Lisp programming) over Common Lisp, because there are some good books and courses based on Scheme.

For learning Lisp programming, Common Lisp has also extremely good books. Both basic, mid-level and advanced.

Examples:

Touretzky, Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

Barsky, Land of Lisp

Graham, ANSI Common Lisp

Graham, On Lisp

Winston/Horn, Lisp

Seibel, Practical Common Lisp

Weitz, Common Lisp Recipes

Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Case Studies in Common Lisp

I would recommend each of these books to people who want to learn Lisp programming or certain aspects of it.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme to go for? by veddox on Saturday July 09, 2016 @03:26PM (#12062876)
I taught myself CL with Touretzky, can recommend it.
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