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Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:48 AM PST

…it has a fresh view on the language and the examples in the later chapters are usable in your day-to-day work as a programmer. — Frank Buss, Lisp Programmer and Slashdot Contributor

If you’re interested in Lisp as it relates to Python or Perl, and want to learn through doing rather than watching, Practical Common Lisp is an excellent entry point. — Chris McAvoy, Chicago Python Users Group

Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.

Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other “practical” chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.

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The programming language LISP: Its Operation and Applications

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The programming language LISP: Its Operation and Applications

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:14 AM PST

The programming language LISP: Its Operation and Applications

One of the tasks under Contract SD-162 issued by the Advan-ced Research Projects Agency to Information International, Inc.,was to help make the programming language LISP more understood,more available, and more useful for programmers and mathemati-cians. The language LISP (short for a “LISt Processing” lang-
uage) is a remarkable and powerful language, because not only　does it govern the operation of a cornputer, but also it is a　mathematical language with great flexibility and power for ex-pressing processes in mathematics, logic, and symbol manipulation　in general.
As a part of the present task, this collection of contribu-tions from various authors has been prepared and published.The section of this report “Acknowledgments” states the con-nections of the authors with various projects and activities, the　original sources of the contributions, and the support which en-abled the　contributions to be written. The authors include many　persons who have worked under contracts with the Advanced Research　Projects Agency other than the contract with Information Interna-tional Inc.
Part 1 of this report contains articles and papers written　primarily for persons with no prior knowledge of LISP or only a　little. If anybody desires to learn LISP, however, Part 1 of this　report is not sufficient, and he should have at hand a copy of:　”LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual”, by John McCarthy and others; pub-
lished by The MIT Press, Cambridge 39, Mass,; date, August 17,　1962; cost, $3,00.
Part II of this report contains articles and papers written　primarily for persons with a substantial prior knowledge of LISP.

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