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▲ Flow 2 days ago

My favorite two computer books are “Starting Forth” and “Let over Lambda”. It’s something about the language and the approach I like.

▲so-cal-schemer 2 days ago | parent [-]

The intersection of these (illustrated-style ∩ Lisp) might be

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16807102W/Land_of_Lisp

Though, I've seen some comments that some of the code isn't idiomatic or something; probably not a great book to learn Lisp from.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6905041-land-of-lisp

-- Not an easy book to get ahold of these days (like most of these)

▲so-cal-schemer 2 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe not so hard to find! (worth a look and check out the music video):

http://landoflisp.com/

comment from pg: "Turns out the border between genius and insanity is a pretty cheery place"

▲so-cal-schemer 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm surprised nobody ever mentions pg's CL book. It has his characteristic easy reading style, is a nice compact size, and used copies are easy to come by.

ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7944696W/ANSI_Common_Lisp