Practical Common Lisp (2009)

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.

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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.

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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.

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