Common Lisp Books

I really liked &quot;Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation&quot;, 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).<p>Moreover, I was expecting to see &quot;Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming&quot;, 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.<p>This Reddit&#x27;s post presents another list that might be an interesting complement to the one we are discussing here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Common_Lisp&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ddcoar&#x2F;selection_of_lisp_books&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Common_Lisp&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ddcoar&#x2F;selecti...</a>

Quite a random selection for such an official looking URL; what about e.g. &quot;Common Lisp - The Language&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;de&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1555580416" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;de&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1555580416</a>) or e.g. &quot;Object-oriented programming in Common LISP&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;de&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0201175894" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;de&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0201175894</a>)? However, the reference to &quot;Principles of Biomedical Informatics&quot; was useful; looks like a very interesting book; another important CL application book not on the list, is of course &quot;Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;de&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1558601910" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;de&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1558601910</a>).

On the off-chance that someone reading this is also interested in algorithmic composition: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michael-edwards.org&#x2F;sc&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michael-edwards.org&#x2F;sc&#x2F;index.html</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michael-edwards.org&#x2F;sc&#x2F;liner.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michael-edwards.org&#x2F;sc&#x2F;liner.html</a> “slippery chicken is an open-source Common Lisp environment for declarative or generative algorithmic composition building on CLM, CMN, CM, MusicXML and Lilypond for score, sound file, and&#x2F;or MIDI file outputs and the integration of these into closely aligned hybrid acoustic-electronic pieces of music.” …made by (the extremely awesome) Michael Edwards: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michael-edwards.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;michael-edwards.org&#x2F;</a>

This list is not very fresh or exhaustive; for instance, does not contain two recent Apress books, which are Vsevolod Domkin&#x27;s <i>Programming Algorithms in Lisp</i> and Michał &quot;phoe&quot; Herda&#x27;s <i>The Common Lisp Condition System</i>.<p>(Disclosure: I was the technical reviewer for the former and I wrote the latter.)

Looks like someone else mentioned PAIP. I’d add “The Art of the Metaobject Protocol” as well.

Graham&#x27;s &quot;On Lisp&quot; was the only CL book I read from start to finish. Thanks Paul, it was one of the eye-openers I still think about from time to time.

This 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 :)

If you want to keep learning about great Common Lisp books, I recommend following Rainer Joswig or Zach Beane on Twitter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;xach" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;xach</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RainerJoswig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RainerJoswig</a>

I think Peter Seibels and Edmung Weitz&#x27; books are both fantastic books with a comprehensive and modern view. Can&#x27;t recommend them enough.

Another overview of some Lisp books:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;5mWJmpo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;5mWJmpo</a>

Good list. I think that I own all published Common Lisp books, and most Prolog and Smalltalk books. I prefer reading books to excess time browsing the web and social media. Including non-technical books, I would be embarrassed to admit how much time I spend reading every week.<p>A self plug: you can get free PDF&#x2F;ePub&#x2F;Kindle versions of my Common Lisp book on my personal web site (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markwatson.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markwatson.com</a>)

Why do I need to know lisp in 2021? Any practical real use besides being used as example in books about computation?

Whats the best stack for building a website or webapp in CL these days? Is it worth it?

How can I learn enough Lisp to understand Emacs well?

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