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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Mcl 3.0 Announcement ?
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In article <gat-171194103608@137.79.107.114> gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
(Erann Gat) writes:

>>Also planned for the first half of 1995 is a student edition of MCL with a
>>target price of under $100. Nominations for an introductory Lisp book to
>>accompany the student edition are welcome.

>I nominate:  Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig.

I'm not sure anyone can put a book priced > US$50 in a package < US$100.

I've been reviewing Lisp textbooks for more than 15 years now.  So far, I
haven't found any that were perfect (I haven't written one ;-), and few that
were very good.

The best Common Lisp textbook I've seen so far is Wade Hennessey's; the best
Lisp textbook I've seen is Winston & Horn *1st edition* (MACLISP, not Common
Lisp).

A close second is Abelson & Sussman, but an old version of Scheme is even
further away than MACLISP.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
