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Title: ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham ISBN: 0-13-370875-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good first study for the Lisp beginner
Comment: With only mild prerequisites in computer science and/or math, Paul Graham gently but quite fully introduces the rudiments of Common Lisp. This was my first Lisp book, recommended to me by a Lisp-fluent student in college when I had to learn the language for an AI class. While I then moved on to more referencial works, like Steele's _Common Lisp: The Language_, Graham is still a foundation for much of the basic grammar, structure, and reasoning behind the form of the language.
While Graham does delve into some interesting coding examples in the second half of the book, _ANSI Common LISP_ is not meant to replace a referential or exemplary book concerning the language. If you're looking for a more case-study sort of book, I suggest Norvig's _Paradigms of AI programming_ or Tanimoto's _Elements of Artificial Intelligence_. Both offer a wealth of examples that Graham rightfully omits in order to more broadly cover the fundamentals of the language itself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Graham Understands Lisp
Comment: Graham has a penetrating understanding of Lisp, so the text is lucid and easy to follow. Also, like Starr's report on Clinton, some of the best stuff is in the footnotes!
The book is small and the topic large, so some coverage of things is a bit thin. So what -- the Hyperspec is free.
The book is extremely practical, dealing with how to write programs and use the language. It is *extremely* handy to refer to while programming; this is not true of the Hyperspec. Hence this book is a must-have.
Also strongly recommended (especially if you don't know why Lisp is so wonderful) is "On Lisp", by Paul Graham. He shows the completely unmatched power of Lisp. Out of print, you can get for free on Graham's website -- go to yahoo to find it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book for insights into python features
Comment: I read the first few chapters of this book before losing interest. My general feeling is that it is a good source to get some insights into where python features like lambda functions come from. As to fully learning LISP, my own personal opinion is don't bother unless you are an ivory tower academic or computer person with an abundance of spare time who likes to collect programming languages like people collect stamps or coins or whatever.
Those of us in the real world solving real programming problems need a rich set of built-ins (python socket, OS, modules etc.)
and want to steer clear of LISP's arcane syntax.
So in conclusion: good book for learning about some programming language design principals in general (and python more specifically), but don't plan on using LISP for real-world applications.
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Title: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming : Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig ISBN: 1558601910 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $66.95 |
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Title: Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS by Sonya E. Keene ISBN: 0201175894 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) by Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig ISBN: 0137903952 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Common LISP : The Language by Guy Steele ISBN: 1555580416 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $65.95 |
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Title: Lisp (3rd Edition) by Patrick Winston, Berthold Horn ISBN: 0201083191 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $42.19 |
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