From: Terry Carroll
Subject: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
Message-ID: <0fkb005s3e7bkbvbjitsj8efjt4liivctv@4ax.com>
I'm looking for a good simple introductory book to Common Lisp; maybe
something that's the Lisp equivalent to the Kernighan & Richie C book.

I'm not looking to become a Lisp developer, but I would like to play with
it just a little bit, just to get a feel for the language.

I've found numerous web sites, linked from
http://www.lisp.org/alu/res-lisp-education.clp, but for learning something
new, I really like to just sit down with a physical book where I can flip
pages back and forth.

Suggestions welcome.
From: Thomas F. Burdick
Subject: Re: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
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Terry Carroll <·······@tjc.com> writes:

> I'm looking for a good simple introductory book to Common Lisp; maybe
> something that's the Lisp equivalent to the Kernighan & Richie C book.
> 
> I'm not looking to become a Lisp developer, but I would like to play with
> it just a little bit, just to get a feel for the language.
> 
> I've found numerous web sites, linked from
> http://www.lisp.org/alu/res-lisp-education.clp, but for learning something
> new, I really like to just sit down with a physical book where I can flip
> pages back and forth.
> 
> Suggestions welcome.

You could do worse than Paul Graham's _ANSI Common Lisp_, or
Touretzky's _Common Lisp: a gentle introduction..._.  The main
downside of those two is that you won't learn about CL's object
system, which is probably the most powerful object system around.
Keene's _Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp_ is supposed to be
good, too.

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From: Kaz Kylheku
Subject: Re: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
Message-ID: <cf333042.0401142229.348b9417@posting.google.com>
Terry Carroll <·······@tjc.com> wrote in message news:<··································@4ax.com>...
> I'm looking for a good simple introductory book to Common Lisp; maybe
> something that's the Lisp equivalent to the Kernighan & Richie C book.
> 
> I'm not looking to become a Lisp developer, but I would like to play with
> it just a little bit, just to get a feel for the language.
> 
> I've found numerous web sites, linked from
> http://www.lisp.org/alu/res-lisp-education.clp, but for learning something
> new, I really like to just sit down with a physical book where I can flip
> pages back and forth.

Did you notice that some of the references there are in fact to books?
You can dump these to a two-sided printer, bind the sheets together
and there you have it.
From: Ryan Kaulakis
Subject: Re: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
Message-ID: <pan.2004.01.16.19.23.01.203206@psu.edu>
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:29:07 -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> Terry Carroll <·······@tjc.com> wrote in message
news:<··································@4ax.com>...
>> I'm looking for a good simple introductory book to Common Lisp; maybe
>> something that's the Lisp equivalent to the Kernighan & Richie C book.
>> 
>> I'm not looking to become a Lisp developer, but I would like to play with
>> it just a little bit, just to get a feel for the language.
>> 
>> I've found numerous web sites, linked from
>> http://www.lisp.org/alu/res-lisp-education.clp, but for learning something
>> new, I really like to just sit down with a physical book where I can flip
>> pages back and forth.
> 
> Did you notice that some of the references there are in fact to books?
> You can dump these to a two-sided printer, bind the sheets together
> and there you have it.
Someone mentioned a while back that (as many as) 4 new CL books are being
published this year. Perhaps you could try one of those out? 

I don't remember the names/publishers/websites of all of them, but I
know that one is "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel from Apress
Publishing. He has kindly put the text up for public review on
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and it seems like quite a good intro to
CL. 

Hopefully some kindly reader will post the remaining 3 titles/links for
you.

Good Luck,
Ryan Kaulakis
From: Lars Brinkhoff
Subject: Re: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
Message-ID: <85r7xzygh7.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
Ryan Kaulakis <······@psu.edu> writes:
> "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel from Apress
> 
> Hopefully some kindly reader will post the remaining 3 titles/links for
> you.

"On Lisp" by Paul Graham (reprint)
"Successful Lisp" by David Lamkins
"The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book" by David Margolies

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From: frr
Subject: Re: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
Message-ID: <6d8g00lmca6ccb64s5qsul94ha7ddrlsco@4ax.com>
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:38:00 GMT, Terry Carroll <·······@tjc.com> wrote:


>I've found numerous web sites, linked from
>http://www.lisp.org/alu/res-lisp-education.clp, but for learning something
>new, I really like to just sit down with a physical book where I can flip
>pages back and forth.
>
>Suggestions welcome.

"Lisp" Winston
"ANSI Common Lisp" Graham
From: Terry Carroll
Subject: Re: Intro book recommendations?
Date: 
Message-ID: <s3fl00ttru0o1e0p3osectjcqjps37mfa3@4ax.com>
Thanks for all the suggestions.
comp.lang.lisp / 2004 / jan