Ken Shirriff wrote:
> I read Paul Grahams's essays and have decided to try using Lisp. I'd
> like to find out how to use Lisp for tasks I typically do in, say,
> Python. Here are some examples:
>
> a) Open all files with the suffix ".abc". Look for all lines that
> contain a particular regular expression and print the matching parts.
>
> b) Read an XML file and print out all the text entities.
>
> c) Fetch a given web page, extract the links, and pipe the results
> into an external command.
>
> I really don't know where to begin to solve these tasks using Lisp.
> The Common Lisp Hyper Spec and the Lisp books I looked at discuss
> "pure" Lisp programming, rather than the kinds of problems I need to
> solve. I think what I need is O'Reilly's "Lisp in a Nutshell" except
> they don't publish it.
>
> So can someone point me at the documentation, book, or libraries I
> should be using?
>
"Practical Common Lisp", due out in tree form eventually, meanwhile:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
kenny
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