Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:32:53 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <874inbqdz7.fsf@mariorosell.es> <87ldcyum1e.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: <87ik80cssl.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lclb4z8eHBecKtnrlzKlHsykOqo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 41 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Pk6MNtphQmGV3WjemD6eIFgGyOvA8fDuvcSCkNdYgZ9v63WNo05FrqIX3gd25Tx1z20mmpLtMKY3zcD!VInhP/s/RgpWv9iqtsezxA3jw8hZiMASBG7IvENeKsyZigI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:60798 "Robert B. Carleton" writes: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:56:45 -0400, steve g wrote: > < > Mario Rosell writes: [...] < > Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp Book by Peter < > Norvig < > > This thread has been going on a while, but I'll add my two cents. I > started with PAIP, but it felt kind of steep to this non-computer > scientist at that time. agreed. > I switched to Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic > Computation (Touretzky), one of the books cited in PAIP. I made good > progress through chapter 8, but at that point I started to lose > momentum. This is also en excellent book. its been so long I forgot about it. > This led me to LISP (3rd edition) by Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold > Klaus Paul Horn. It's another PAIP recommendation. It felt like that > book was paced better for my circumstances. If you work through section > one and two, that's a pretty good tour of Common Lisp. With PAIP you can get the source code in java. this should make it easier for some people. > I hope that's helpful. same here, thanx.