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From: miller@mcc.com (Bradford W. Miller)
Subject: Re: What's a good book to start learning lisp?
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In article <53pit2$dnn@news-central.tiac.net>, goulet@tiac.net (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."
> 

They're both very good books; decide how strong your programming background
is. If strong, go for the latter, I've used the former to teach Lisp to
Humanities
students.

A good first book is "The Little Lisper", and you can find citations on this
and other books on the ALU site:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/miller/ALU/

Good luck,
