- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (Nov 12 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0133708756
- ISBN-13: 978-0133708752
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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- #11 in Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools > Lisp
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This book provides an excellent introduction to Common Lisp. In addition to chapters covering the basic language concepts, there are sections discussing the Common Lisp object system (CLOS) and speed considerations in Lisp. Three fair-sized examples of nontrivial Lisp projects are also included. The book's clear and engaging format explains complicated constructs simply. This format makes ANSI Common Lisp accessible to a general audience--even those who have never programmed before. The book also provides an excellent perspective on the value of using Lisp.
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KEY BENEFIT: Teaching users new and more powerful ways of thinking about programs, this two-in-one 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 users 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. Dividing material into two parts, the tutorial half of the book covers subject-by-subject the essential core of Common Lisp, and sums up lessons of preceding chapters in two examples of real applications: a backward-chainer, and an embedded language for object-oriented programming. Consisting of three appendices, the summary half of the book gives source code for a selection of widely used Common Lisp operators, with definitions that offer a comprehensive explanation of the language and provide a rich source of real examples; summarizes some differences between ANSI Common Lisp and Common Lisp as it was originally defined in 1984; and contains a concise description of every function, macro, and special operator in ANSI Common Lisp. The book concludes with a section of notes containing clarifications, references, and additional code. For computer programmers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Common Lisp Sample Text you can Own,
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This review is from: ANSI Common LISP (Paperback)
I wouldn't say this is the best introductory book to list, that honor rest's with Peter Siebel's Practical Common Lisp. This book acts as more of a reference, but one that is loaded with example code and has a great pace and flow to it.I would place it as the best Common Lisp reference you can get in dead tree form! Pros: - Good Summary and practice questions at the end of each chapter - Great example code, that actually does something useful - Great introduction to the CLOS - Teaches you how to use Common lisp as a general purpose language, like Java and C++, rather than shoehorning it as an AI only language like other texts do. Cons: - No reference on setting up a lisp environment, that is up to the reader - Not a great introductory text, though in its defence the book doesn't claim to be - Short Macro section, though the author has written another book that fully describes macros
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Graham Understands Lisp,
By Putnam (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: ANSI Common LISP (Paperback)
Graham has a penetrating understanding of Lisp, so the text is lucid and easy to follow. Also, like Starr's report on Clinton, some of the best stuff is in the footnotes!The book is small and the topic large, so some coverage of things is a bit thin. So what -- the Hyperspec is free. The book is extremely practical, dealing with how to write programs and use the language. It is *extremely* handy to refer to while programming; this is not true of the Hyperspec. Hence this book is a must-have. Also strongly recommended (especially if you don't know why Lisp is so wonderful) is "On Lisp", by Paul Graham. He shows the completely unmatched power of Lisp. Out of print, you can get for free on Graham's website -- go to yahoo to find it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
concise and fast paced introduction,
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This review is from: ANSI Common LISP (Paperback)
A good tutorial on the use of lisp as a "non-ai" mainstream programming language.Give the history and a rich set of unique programming features lisp offers, it's sad that it's not used more often. I rate this book alongside Touretzky's "a gentle introduction to symbolic computation"
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