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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

LISP tutorials

Where can I find nice tutorials or ebooks about LISP in the Internet. I haven't found anything intereting yet.

Thanks.

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tizoc

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Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 57

Re: LISP tutorials

Well... you have Scheme and Common Lisp, Scheme is the smaller nicer one, CL is the bigger more practical one.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html <= Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (aka SICP), while this isn't going to teach the lenguage per se, it is going to teach you to "think the lisp way", one of the most important books on programming imho. It uses Scheme as the language.
http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/ <= The Scheme Programming Language 3ed, after learning from SICP, this is a good book if you want to know Scheme better
http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/ <= This defines the R5RS standard (the latest Scheme standard, R6RS is on its way)
http://www.htdp.org <= How To Design Programs, an alternative to SICP (I like SICP more)
http://community.schemewiki.org/ <= look here for more references and information

Common Lisp:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book Practical Common Lisp <= this one teaches Common Lisp, I found it nice, because it uses practical examples (an id3 parser, a shoutcast server, etc)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html <= Common Lisp The Language 2nd Edition, this defines the Common Lisp standard
http://www.cliki.net <= look here for more references and information

Here is a not so bad comparsion of Scheme and Common Lisp: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lan … d4f84e70e3

You should hang arround on #scheme and #lisp on irc.freenode.net too, I don't know about #lisp, but on #scheme there is a lot of cool people who can help you to learn.

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: LISP tutorials

PCL is the way I recommend. I feel like it covers important points in the right order. Also, never program Common Lisp without the hyperspec (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/ … /index.htm) at hand. Also, it's called Lisp these days. Caps are out of style.

Bison

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From: Jacksonville, FL

Registered: 2006-04-12

Posts: 158

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Re: LISP tutorials

There are lots of good resources

CL:  cliki.net, Practical Common Lisp, and I hear that ANSI common lisp is pretty good too

Scheme:
Schemers.org
The Scheme Programming Language (Printed, but its a really good introduction to scheme)
Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs (SiCP)
Essentials of Programming Languages (EoPL) (Printed)

Also check out the documents/books section on schemers.org

There are also tons of tutorials on scheme online.

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