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#2If you want to keep learning about great Common Lisp books, I recommend following Rainer Joswig or Zach Beane on Twitter.
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#3If you want to keep learning about great Common Lisp books, I recommend following Rainer Joswig or Zach Beane on Twitter. https://twitter.com/xach https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig
Rainer Joswig also has great answers on Stack Overflow.
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#4Quite a random selection for such an official looking URL; what about e.g. "Common Lisp - The Language" (https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1555580416) or e.g. "Object-oriented programming in Common LISP" (https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201175894)? However, the reference to "Principles of Biomedical Informatics" was useful; looks like a very interesting book; another important CL application book not on the list, is of course "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming" (https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1558601910).
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#5I really liked "Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation", from David S. Touretzky. I think it could have been mentioned. Unlike Practical Common Lisp, it has exercises and extensive sections in each chapter just on tools (such as dribble, trace, describe, step, et cetera).
Moreover, I was expecting to see "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming", from Peter Norvig. I have not fully read it, but it seems to be an awesome book. Not just to learn Lisp but a good book in general, since the code is beautifully designed. Despite the title, AI (GOFAI, actually) is just the domain, the lisp techniques and code approach can be applied to other areas.
This Reddit's post presents another list that might be an interesting complement to the one we are discussing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/ddcoar/selecti...
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#6This is awesome. I had an introductory lisp course in college and couldn’t make heads or tails of it. To this day it’s the only programming language I’ve tried and been unable to understand (“I could just never grok lisp - it’s incompatible with my brain”). Given a few introductory, free texts, I might be well on my way to remedy that :)
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#7This is awesome. I had an introductory lisp course in college and couldn’t make heads or tails of it. To this day it’s the only programming language I’ve tried and been unable to understand (“I could just never grok lisp - it’s incompatible with my brain”). Given a few introductory, free texts, I might be well on my way to remedy that :)
It's not a Common Lisp book, but I'd highly recommend The Little Schemer if you're looking to grok lisp.
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#8How can I learn enough Lisp to understand Emacs well?
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#9How can I learn enough Lisp to understand Emacs well?
I guess this would be good for you considering your objectives:"An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp". It is available for free here [1].
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#10How can I learn enough Lisp to understand Emacs well?
Emacs includes a book, or maybe it's in the list of installable packages called An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp (I think the package is called 'eintr') that does a pretty good job as an introductory lisp programing text and then gets deeper into the internal functions of Emacs.
By the later part of it I felt like I had a decent handle on Emacs Lisp and could read the code for packages I was interested in reasonably well.