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From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@pact.srf.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: What's a good book to start learning lisp?
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To: Lionel Goulet <goulet@tiac.net>
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Lionel Goulet wrote:
> 
> Would anyone care to advise me on a book to learn lisp, starting from the very
> beginning?  My research requires me to at least be able to read Common Lisp, in
> order to understand the examples.
> 
> I've read a few FAQ's and they recommend either
> David Touretzki's "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation"
> or
> Deborah Tatar's "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp."
> 
> As these tomes are quite expensive, I wondering if anyone would care to comment
> on either of them.
I've just got back to lisp in the last few months. As reference I used Tatar's book
and CLtL2 (because they were in the library). I found Tatar's book very useful for
both refreshing my memory and explaining how to do things in lisp. It is very definitatly
targeted at those who are programmers.

I did find the information (intentionally) incomplete and now mainly refer to CLtL2.

I don't know about Touretzki, 'cos it wasn't in the library.

For your reference, I have previously implemented a lisp on 8bit micros
before CLtL1 existed, so had quite a bit of knowledge about lisp to begin with.

nathan

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