From: krian
Subject: Novice user ot LISP
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:01:13 +0000
Message-ID: <2b474188.0305190501.7d4af79f@posting.google.com>

Hi
  I am a novice user to LISP, I want to lear about LISP.
  Can anyboyd help me what is the LISP and what r the XLISP and
commonLISP..?
  For implementing programs in LISP where can i get downloads  the
editors and compilers on LISP ..?
  Thank you.
by
kiran

• Re: Novice user ot LISP Franz Kafka
• Re: Novice user ot LISP Nikodemus Siivola

From: Franz Kafka
Subject: Re: Novice user ot LISP
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:13:38 +0000
Message-ID: <mE5ya.7757$Cg1.7515@news02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net>

"krian" <···········@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>   I am a novice user to LISP, I want to lear about LISP.
>   Can anyboyd help me what is the LISP and what r the XLISP and
> commonLISP..?
XLisp is an older version of Lisp--the base of AutoLisp for AutoCAD;
CommonLisp is an ANSI lang. The only other Lisp that is used a lot is
Scheme.
>   For implementing programs in LISP where can i get downloads  the
> editors and compilers on LISP ..?
for CommonLisp
try http://clisp.sourceforge.net  for Windows/Linux
or http://cmucl.cons.org/cmucl/ for linux only
or www.alu.org for the Common Lisp Users Homepage

for Scheme
try www.drscheme.org for a Scheme compiler
or  www.schemers.org for the Scheme Users Homepage
and www.schemers.com sells Scheme compilers and books
for students.

and also remember to goto
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

it has a pdf file and ps file -- that will teach you Lisp quickly.

>   Thank you.
> by
> kiran

From: Nikodemus Siivola
Subject: Re: Novice user ot LISP
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:49:24 +0000
Message-ID: <bab1uk$581jh$1@midnight.cs.hut.fi>

For learning Common Lisp I suggest Paul Grahams book "ANSI Common Lisp".
The first two chapters are available online, and I would especially
recommend the second chapter for starters.

  http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html

"Pascal Costanza's Higly Opionated Guide to Lisp" contains many worthwhile
pointers as well.

  http://www.pascalcostanza.de/lisp/guide.html

The ALU website is also a good source of information.

  http://www.alu.org/

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus