Any Lisp book that is written today owes it to the Lisp community and the rest of the world to write in a modern, safe, and digestible style. One issue with many Lisp books, especially older and self-published ones, is that they contain the author’s pet style or pet idioms, and they wouldn’t fly in a team environment. I think this is especially important because Lisp books are for learning, and if it’s just that much more difficult to Google(/ddg/AltaVista), it will be a frustrating disservice.<p>Common Lisp has extremely reasonable and regular syntax if you stick to some basic rules and you don’t “flex” the language gratuitously. Written in such a way, the structure would be familiar to the modern Python or Java programmer. Yet the language is a workhorse when the problems get tough or gnarly.<p>Looking forward to the publication of this book. Seeing introductory algorithms in modern Common Lisp would be a great resource.