Something possessed me to start looking into lisp
I have a semi-decent maths background and been in programming for 8 years.
Unwilling to post a yet another newbie message i searched the web but came
up with too many loose ends. Can anybody be kind enough to point me to a
good 'starting point' rather than having to check out a million roads that
lead to a dead end?
Brendon
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* Brendon Caligari
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| Something possessed me to start looking into lisp
Good. :-)
| Unwilling to post a yet another newbie message i searched the web
| but came up with too many loose ends. Can anybody be kind enough to
| point me to a good 'starting point' rather than having to check out
| a million roads that lead to a dead end?
This is the place to start:
<URL: http://www.elwoodcorp.com/alu/table/contents.htm >
--Lars M.
In article <··············@lambda.garshol.priv.no>, Lars Marius Garshol
<······@garshol.priv.no> wrote:
> * Brendon Caligari
> |
> | Something possessed me to start looking into lisp
>
> Good. :-)
>
> | Unwilling to post a yet another newbie message i searched the web
> | but came up with too many loose ends. Can anybody be kind enough to
> | point me to a good 'starting point' rather than having to check out
> | a million roads that lead to a dead end?
>
> This is the place to start:
>
> <URL: http://www.elwoodcorp.com/alu/table/contents.htm >
No, this URL is old.
It is now http://www.lisp.org/ .
--
Rainer Joswig, BU Partner,
ISION Internet AG, Steinh�ft 9, 20459 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49 40 3070 2950, Fax: +49 40 3070 2999
Email: ····················@ision.net WWW: http://www.ision.net/
Thanks guys for your help :-) I will now do a bit of book-shopping and
reading
and I'll prolly be back in a few weeks time
Brendon
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"Rainer Joswig" <·············@ision.net> wrote in message
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> In article <··············@lambda.garshol.priv.no>, Lars Marius Garshol
> <······@garshol.priv.no> wrote:
"Brendon Caligari" <·······@shipreg.com> writes:
> Something possessed me to start looking into lisp
>
> I have a semi-decent maths background and been in programming for 8 years.
>
> Unwilling to post a yet another newbie message i searched the web but came
> up with too many loose ends. Can anybody be kind enough to point me to a
> good 'starting point' rather than having to check out a million roads that
> lead to a dead end?
For a good introduction into Lisp for the working programmer, read
David Lamkins' book "Successsful Lisp" at
http://psg.com/~dlamkins/left/sl/html/cover.html
For software to look at, check Dan Barlow's CLiki:
http://ww.telent.net/cliki/index
The "canonical" starting point with pointers to articles, software,
etc. is at
http://www.lisp.org/table/contents.htm
Have fun!
Rudi