comment about LISP book?

[Gueven Bay]

2007/9/19, Yan <rottled at gmail.com>:
> I'm sorry, hit 'send' prematurely. Edited mail below.
>
>
> It's funny that you just mentioned it now, as I was looking at a few lisp
> books recently. "Paradigms of AI Programming" has been hailed as one of the
> best lisp books ever written (book site here: http://norvig.com/paip.html,
> and click on the 'Comments' section). The amazon reviews for it are also
> glowing, not to mention the utmost respect I have for its author (Peter
> Norvig). Being more specific to what you're asking, quoting Norvig
> himself: "Probably
> the best book ever on how to write Lisp compilers and interpreters is
> Christian Queinnec's *Lisp in Small Pieces*.". You can also look at Paul
> Graham's "On Lisp" and "ANSI Common Lisp".
>
> Hope this helps.

In my opinion is On Lisp somewhat advanced as it concentrates on macros.
But in itself it is a great book which teaches _the_ technique of Lisp
programming.

For a starter i would recommend:
Practical Common Lisp
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

This book is going step for step through the process of understanding
Lisp and programming "funny" applications. At the end of this book the
reader has developed apps as a Shoutcast server and a HTML lib. Also
it is easy to read as there are very "dry" books about programming -
ANSI Common Lisp is such a dry book -.

And PCL is free to read.

Because the original poster wanted to make a class from a book PCL is
very good for his needs (in my opinion).