From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: Getting started in Lisp: simple tasks
Date: 
Message-ID: <7_dbd.22831$4C.4641835@twister.nyc.rr.com>
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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