> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael Sevilla [mailto:dido@???]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 12:25 PM
> To: True Computer Science Mailing List
> Cc: Dean Michael C. Berris
> Subject: Re: Common Lisp Anyone?
>
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:37:57 -0700
> "Dean Michael C. Berris" <dmberris@???> wrote:
>
> > Has anybody on the list been using Common Lisp on a regular basis?
>
> Once upon a time I did Scheme and a bit of CL. I am, at the
> moment, playing around with Paul Graham's Arc language. It
> is, at the moment, quite immature but that can only change
> with time, as it has developed a community in quite short order.
>
I think you've mentioned Arc before here. I did take a look back then,
but I found the language still a little immature. How's that been going
for you?
> At any rate, SICP is a good book to read, even if it is
> oriented to Scheme. I also found very useful Common Lisp: A
> Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, by David S.
> Touretzky [1] (yes, that same guy who made a lot of noise a
> few years ago with DeCSS and the DMCA).
>
> [1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html
>
Thanks for the link!
I have to ask though, Scheme and SICP seems a little too "castrated" for
lack of a better term. I find the practical common lisp book glossing
over too many details that I'd like to know about the Lisp. "On Lisp"
however goes at a much higher level than I have the background for, so
doing the mental cartwheels along with Paul Graham's prose+poetry
sometimes hurts my brain.
Would anybody know of a book between "Practical Common Lisp" and "On
Lisp" which can fill in some of the gaps? Named parameters, CLOS, and
macros -- you know, the good stuff not the CAR/CDR discussion in SICP
and the basic Lisp/Scheme books. ;)
(And no, I can't say I know Touretzky from anywhere. :D)
--
Dean Michael Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.
<dmberris@???>
+639287291459
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