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Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by todd8 on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:24AM (#17645052)
Note that while this is one of the really good books on Common Lisp it is not new. The copyright is 2003-2005.
Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by lispm on Monday July 30, 2018 @03:29PM (#17647250)
It's new for those who haven't read it. ;-)

There are a bunch of oldish Lisp books, but which might be read with some benefit even today. I'd would for example mention Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems (benchmarking Lisp), Keene's CLOS book, PAIP (writing classical non-trivial code and optimizing it), AMOP (meta-objects, extensible architecture), On Lisp (macros), Land of Lisp (fun&games), Common Lisp Recipes (Lisp lore), ... and also the Lisp Machine Manual ...

For a bunch of, often old, Lisp related books see my list: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/lispm&tag=lisp

Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by jimbokun on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:45PM (#17648372)
In general, Lisp books were generally so far ahead of the state of the art at the time they were written, they remain very relevant and timely today.

And very likely tomorrow. :)

Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by kazinator on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:41AM (#17645222)
Any halfway good language has a constant procession of new books being cranked out about it. Reading a new "bible" is required every 3 to 5 years, along with updates to your entire code base.
Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by weavie on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:29PM (#17645668)
Common Lisp Recipes by Edi Weitz is the most recent 'bible'. Another excellent book.
Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by TeMPOraL on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:36PM (#17645729)
I strongly agree and I can't recommend it enough. It's not a good first book, though - it's not meant as an introduction to Common Lisp (for that it, in fact, recommends Practical Common Lisp). It's best read if you can already find your way around Common Lisp REPL, and write some basic programs - it systematizes the knowledge, explores various quirks of the language, and shows you practical solutions to common problems.

As for introduction, another nice book is Land of Lisp - it introduces you to most of Common Lisp by means of writing games of increasing complexity.

Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by gecko on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:27AM (#17645076)
Has anything really changed, though? QuickLisp, I guess, but that feels like about it.
Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by weavie on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:41AM (#17645223)
Also Lisp in a Box is no longer available. Nevertheless this book is always on my desk. I refer to it almost on a weekly basis.
Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by phoe-krk on Monday July 30, 2018 @12:00PM (#17645416)
It has been superseded by Portacle.

http://portacle.github.io/

Re:Practical Common Lisp (2009) by ethagnawl on Monday July 30, 2018 @02:29PM (#17646761)
I was going to mention ASDF but, from its changelog, it looks like its first release was in 2001(!).