From: Zach
Subject: is this a good intro document for learning LISP?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:09:35 +0000
Message-ID: <2r1nsvckgaemafqu8jbf3vshjfjf22j526@4ax.com>

"Loving Lisp - the Savy Programmer's Secret Weapon"
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/lisp_lic.htm

Zach

• Re: is this a good intro document for learning LISP? Chris Riesbeck
  • Re: is this a good intro document for learning LISP? Dragontamer

From: Chris Riesbeck
Subject: Re: is this a good intro document for learning LISP?
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:50:33 +0000
Message-ID: <b7acf703.0312031050.4faec40d@posting.google.com>

Zach <····@libcom.com> wrote in message news:<··································@4ax.com>...
> "Loving Lisp - the Savy Programmer's Secret Weapon"
> http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/lisp_lic.htm

It's good. The author has used Lisp for years. It's
incomplete, e.g., the section on loop is not filled
in, and I think there are some code examples that show
how something works, but aren't really the best ways
to do things. Since AFAIK it never went through several
iterations with students in courses, there may be
spots that confuse novices. For example, he shows
a classic box-tree for list structure without 
describing the notation.

From: Dragontamer
Subject: Re: is this a good intro document for learning LISP?
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:26:08 +0000
Message-ID: <49f8581bb65bd9422d2c3fc7ee60d41f@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com>

It worked for me however...

I give it 4/5 stars.