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LISP textbook

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 8:44

If I wish to learn LISP with my only background being some basic knowledge in Java, which book should I learn from?

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 8:45

Read SICP, of course.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 8:47

Read SICP, install Gentoo, program in shell scripts.

Name: Doctor Racket !RACKET/.HY 2011-02-11 8:47

>>1
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1296826775/8

Books: (in order)
SICP, HtDP (Scheme), On Lisp and PCL.

Name: noko 2011-02-11 8:48

>>2
I love your post! It's so great! You are such a great Programmer!
I bow down before you! Please let me stand in your shadow for I am not worthy your clearly ÜBER Programming skills! I beg thee!

also
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Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 8:50

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 8:58

Practical Common Lisp is a great book. SICP is a little less practical, meaning it wont teach you how to write useful software.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 9:33

Scheme: SICP, HtDP; standard: RnRS (read them in order); additional material: lambda papers, The 90 Minute Scheme to C compiler, implementation source code.
Common Lisp: Practical Common Lisp (gigamonkey's), PAIP (norvig's), ANSI CL(Graham's), On Lisp (Graham's), Object-oriented programming in Common Lisp (Keene's, simple introduction to CLOS); additional material: The Art of the Meta-object Protocol (AMOP - how CLOS is implemented in itself and how you can extend CLOS to be any kind of object system; I'd heavily recommend reading it, if you like "metacircular" object systems; it's also how it's implemented in the majority of CL implementations, except they usually have a lot more optimizations), some of H.Baker's papers(http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/) like "Metacircular Semantics for Common Lisp Special Forms", most of KMP's CL papers ( http://www.nhplace.com/kent/publications.html ) like ( http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Special-Forms.html http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Condition-Handling-2001.html http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Exceptional-Situations-1990.html ); standard: Hyperspec(digital version of the second ANSI standard), Common Lisp the Language 2 (commentary/reference on an intermediate version of the second standard, pre-ANSI).
Both Lisps: LiSP (Queinnec's; a good book on making Scheme and CL compilers and interpreters)

I would also recommend you do not just read any of these books as is, but get an implementation ready (Racket and MIT Scheme for Scheme; Emacs+SLIME+Paredit+Redshank(+Hyperspec installed in Emacs) for the editor/interface to your favorite implementation (such as SBCL, ClozureCL, ECL, CLISP, Lisp-Works, AllegroCL, etc; I'd recommend at least having SBCL and ClozureCL installed and compiled from source code, so you can browse the source code locally in Emacs with M-. and M-,).

Once you're familiar with the languages, you're also free to com to #lisp (Common Lisp) or #scheme (Scheme) on Freenode if you have questions or want to talk to developers of popular implementations.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 9:55

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Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 10:46

>>9
How about HAX MY ANUS?

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-11 10:51

OP here. Thank you for the full and detailed answer.

Name: NOKO 2011-02-11 18:54

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