ANSI Common LISP 1st Edition
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For use as a core text supplement in any course covering common LISP such as Artificial Intelligence or Concepts of Programming Languages.
Teaching students new and more powerful ways of thinking about programs, this text contains a tutorial―full of examples―that explains all the essential concepts of Lisp programming, plus an up- to-date summary of ANSI Common Lisp, listing every operator in the language. Informative and fun, it gives students everything they need to start writing programs in Lisp both efficiently and effectively, and highlights such innovative Lisp features as automatic memory management, manifest typing, closures, and more.
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- Publisher : Pearson; 1st edition (November 2, 1995)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0133708756
- ISBN-13 : 978-0133708752
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 1 x 8.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #388,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13 in Lisp Programming
- #1,023 in Computer Programming Languages
- #1,677 in Computer Software (Books)
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Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English computer scientist, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp, for co-founding Viaweb (which eventually became Yahoo! Store), and for co-founding the Y Combinator seed capital firm. He is the author of some programming books, such as: On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004).
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As to the book itself, it's comfortably sized for one-handed reading, though the softcover makes it hard to place down on a table. Print is a bit off (top half of letters are a wee bit out of sync with the lower half) but the paper is good quality, and text is clear. It came a little bit roughed up, but perhaps that's due to its age. Great purchase in my opinion.
My main complaint is the binding on the book. I have not put this book under any unusual stress and the spine is already starting to fall apart after a few weeks of use. This unacceptable for reference book that I would like to use well into the future.
Paul Graham is an awesome author and I take every opportunity I can to cite him, his book(s), essays in my college papers. Maybe one day someone will get the message and make a class about LISP so I can take it and be entirely justified in stating that everything that this book is about is AWESOME.
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Great book for an even greater language. I wouldn't recommend this for somebody who wants to learn what LISP is all about. For that I would recommed Land of LISP as it outlines the beauty (and difficulty) of LISP much better. But that's not what this is all about.









