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Re:They Called It LISP For A Reason by Antibabelic on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:35AM (#48022368)
This book is a great introduction to Common Lisp and Lisp in general. Very no-nonsense. Happy to see it here!
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Re:They Called It LISP For A Reason by kjander79 on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:42PM (#48029015)
I just wish many of the software projects the code in the book depends on had been maintained. Portable Aserve and the Shoutcast server are two examples that come to mind off the top of my head, and of course the Lisp in a Box environment is long gone, and the replacements, like Portacle, are also getting left behind.
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Re:They Called It LISP For A Reason by pamcake on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:41AM (#48033409)
Another good introduction, full-nonsense: http://landoflisp.com/
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Re:They Called It LISP For A Reason by Antibabelic on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:02AM (#48035742)
Land of Lisp is actually a very, very bad introduction.
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Re:They Called It LISP For A Reason by deterministic on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:39PM (#48044383)
I highly recommend writing your own toy version of LISP in whatever language you already know. Just enough to get the basic eval loop working (+ macros if you feel brave).

It is fun and IMHO the best way to learn LISP.

If you get stuck read through one of the many examples online and then try again without looking at those examples.

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