They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)

Antibabelic 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This book is a great introduction to Common Lisp and Lisp in general. Very no-nonsense. Happy to see it here!

kjander79 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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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pamcake a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Another good introduction, full-nonsense: http://landoflisp.com/

	▲	Antibabelic 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Land of Lisp is actually a very, very bad introduction.

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deterministic 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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ChrisArchitect 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some previous discussion:

2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162318

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850703

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644067

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096576

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