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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.

-- 
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