Hi!
What's the best book for getting started with common lisp and
clos for someone with a decent background in scheme and c++? O:-)
Thanks
//-----------------------------------------------
// Fernando Rodriguez Romero
//
// frr at mindless dot com
//------------------------------------------------
·······@must.die (Fernando) writes:
> Hi!
>
> What's the best book for getting started with common lisp and
> clos for someone with a decent background in scheme and c++? O:-)
i'd say
_ansi common lisp_ paul graham
but you may want to look at
_paradigms of artificial intelligence programing_ peter norvig
_on lisp_ paul graham
and perhaps
_common lisp the reference_ 2nd ed guy steele.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[········@ne.mediaone.net]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:29:05 GMT, Fernando <·······@must.die> wrote:
>What's the best book for getting started with common lisp and clos
>for someone with a decent background in scheme and c++? O:-)
A good book on CL is Graham's "ANSI Common Lisp."
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0133708756/northtexaslinuxuA/>
It's not clear to me how strong it is on CLOS; it has a chapter on the
topic that seems useful, but relatively introductory.
It'll take long enough to get "up to speed" on the rest of the
language that I suspect that this lack won't be much of a concern to
you until closer to the next millennium.
You should also avail yourself of the "fairly definitive" HyperSpec
<http://www.harlequin.com/education/books/HyperSpec/> which will
provide greater detail for many of the questions that Graham's book
elicits but won't answer (due to not being six feet thick :-)).
--
People consistently decry X for doing precisely what it was designed to
do: provide a mechanism to allow *OTHERS* to build GUI systems.
-- John Stevens <········@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov>
········@ntlug.org- <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/langlisp.html>
·······@must.die (Fernando) writes:
> What's the best book for getting started with common lisp and
> clos for someone with a decent background in scheme and c++? O:-)
Perhaps the following is helpful for the CLOS bit. If I remember
correctly the book is quite introductory. -- Axel
@Book{ kleene89:clos,
author = "Sonya E. Kleene",
title = "Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's
Guide to CLOS",
publisher = {Addison Wesley},
year = 1989,
address = {Reading, MA}
}
Fernando wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> What's the best book for getting started with common lisp and
> clos for someone with a decent background in scheme and c++? O:-)
>
> Thanks
>
> //-----------------------------------------------
> // Fernando Rodriguez Romero
> //
> // frr at mindless dot com
> //------------------------------------------------
See the book reviews at http://www.lisp.org. In addition to some of the
books mentioned on this thread, you might also be interested in some of
the MOP and language comparison works.
According to a coworker with some background in LISP, a good start-up
book is "The ANSI Common Lisp" ... after some investigation, others
seem to agree. A link below lists reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0133708756/productlink
I hope that this is helpful.
In article <················@news.nova.es>,
·······@must.die (Fernando) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What's the best book for getting started with common lisp and
> clos for someone with a decent background in scheme and c++? O:-)
>
> Thanks
>
> //-----------------------------------------------
> // Fernando Rodriguez Romero
> //
> // frr at mindless dot com
> //------------------------------------------------
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.