The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book is available on Amazon.
Apprently this book was a kind o vapour book:
http://xach.livejournal.com/156584.html
No "search inside", and any useful information about book contents.
I'd like to see a copy, before I'd buy it.
However I went to http://webstore.ansi.org/ and bought a PDF copy of
the ANSI Common Lisp standard from them, it is HUGE, and covers
everything in detail.
More like Cltl2 but IMHO much better.
From: Edi Weitz
Subject: Re: ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book released
Date:
Message-ID: <uhcgbjzm2.fsf@agharta.de>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:51:40 -0800 (PST), Jacobite1607 <············@gmail.com> wrote:
> However I went to http://webstore.ansi.org/ and bought a PDF copy of
> the ANSI Common Lisp standard from them, it is HUGE, and covers
> everything in detail.
It's available online (and for download) here:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/common-lisp.html
> More like Cltl2 but IMHO much better.
For the relation between CLtL2 and the ANSI spec see for example here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/7d7cf47774f768e6
Edi.
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> For the relation between CLtL2 and the ANSI spec see for example here:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/7d7cf47774f768e6
>
That is VERY interesting especially given that it is from Kent M.
Pitman the principal technical editor of ANSI Common Lisp. My main
reason for preferring The "ANSI Programming Language Common Lisp" it
over Cltl2 was not in it's technical content but in it's clear concise
presentation of the language. I do like Cltl2 but I really do not care
why x3j13 decided what it decided (which I have no control over) only
what it's decision was (since I have to live with it). That's just my
opinion but regardless I'm certainly not throwing my copy of Cltl2
away any time soon.
Thanks,
William
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:51:40 -0800, Jacobite1607 wrote:
> I'd like to see a copy, before I'd buy it.
>
> However I went to http://webstore.ansi.org/ and bought a PDF copy of
> the ANSI Common Lisp standard from them, it is HUGE, and covers
> everything in detail.
>
> More like Cltl2 but IMHO much better.
How much is it? You have to register even to do a search.
Tim
From: Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
Subject: Re: ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book released
Date:
Message-ID: <sxdlk5m17tw.fsf@rtp.ericsson.se>
>>>>> "tim" == tim <····@internet.com> writes:
tim> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:51:40 -0800, Jacobite1607 wrote:
>> I'd like to see a copy, before I'd buy it.
>>
>> However I went to http://webstore.ansi.org/ and bought a PDF copy of
>> the ANSI Common Lisp standard from them, it is HUGE, and covers
>> everything in detail.
>>
>> More like Cltl2 but IMHO much better.
tim> How much is it? You have to register even to do a search.
I have heard that the pdf version of the spec is a scan of the actual
printed version, and the scan isn't even very good.
But I don't have the pdf version myself....
Ray
> I have heard that the pdf version of the spec is a scan of the actual
> printed version, and the scan isn't even very good.
>
It is but the printed version is $350 versus $30 for the pdf.
William
This is the link to it
http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=ANSI+INCITS+226%2D1994+%28R1999%29
If you are interested.
It's $30.00 and it is a scan of the original book version, which is a
bummer, however the original book version is $350, and maybe you can
justify that but I have a hard time doing so. I like the format
however which is basically:
Command:
Syntax:
Arguments and Values:
Description:
Examples: (With results) This is where I always thought Cltl2 dropped
the ball, as I like to see the results of an example without having to
type it in myself.
See also:
Reference books are like women everyone has their own opinion which
one is best, for me this was a good fit.
William