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Re: Resources to learn common lisp?

From tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.lisp
Subject Re: Resources to learn common lisp?
Date 2026-04-01 13:23 -0400
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steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes:

> Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> writes:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I want to learn Common Lisp, but I don't really know what resources to
>> use.
>>
>> What did you all use to learn? Is that even relevant? Is this newsgroup
>> active?
>>
>> Thanks for everyone in advice
>
> https://lisp-lang.org/books/
>

Oddly, this list does not include "COMMON LISP: A Gentle
Introduction to Symbolic Computation", by David
S. Touretzky, which the computer science department at
Carnegie Mellon University provides as a .pdf file:

  https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

And it does not include "COMMON LISP: An Interactive
Approach", by Stuart C. Shapiro, which the State University
of New York at Buffalo provides as a .pdf file:

  https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/commonLisp.pdf

> most people like graham. I personally like Norvig.
>
> the introduction in emacs on emacs-lisp is actually very good! C-h i m
> elisp (in emacs).
>

1. C-h i m only works if you have not used C-h i for other
info documentation.  It assumes that the info reader starts
in the directory.  More generally, type C-h i followed by
‘d’ (to go to the directory) and then ‘m’ to specify a menu
entry.

2. C-h i d m elisp would open the Emacs Lisp reference
manual, which is not the Introduction to Emacs Lisp.  For
that, use C-h i d m, and then type Emacs Lisp Intro at the
"menu item:" prompt.

-- 
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds.

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Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-20 22:53 +0100
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> - 2026-02-20 22:00 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-21 12:25 +0100
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-02-21 10:24 -0500
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-21 21:30 +0000
        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-22 01:08 +0100
          Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-22 04:59 +0000
            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-02-22 10:59 +0530
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-22 21:48 +0000
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> - 2026-02-20 17:44 -0500
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-21 12:30 +0100
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-20 23:50 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-21 00:24 +0000
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2026-02-21 11:36 +0100
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-21 12:44 +0100
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-03-31 17:47 -0400
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-31 23:41 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> - 2026-04-01 13:23 -0400
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