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Resources to learn common lisp?

Started byMario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es>
First post2026-02-20 22:53 +0100
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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? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 12:43 -0400
          Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 12:41 -0400
            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-08 20:02 +0000
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-09 00:23 -0400
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-09 06:28 +0000
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-09 06:32 +0000
                    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-10 12:27 -0400
                      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-11 17:33 +0000
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-10 12:16 -0400
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-09 06:53 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Axel Reichert <mail@axel-reichert.de> - 2026-06-09 12:07 +0200
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-10 00:14 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-11 17:22 +0000
            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-09 00:35 +0000
        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 12:37 -0400
          Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-09 00:33 +0000
            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-09 00:22 -0400
            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2026-06-09 01:22 -0400
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-09 06:17 +0000
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-09 06:50 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-10 12:40 -0400
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-11 00:26 +0000
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-06-11 05:27 -0400
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-10 12:24 -0400
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-06-11 05:57 -0400
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2026-06-11 21:07 -0400
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-12 13:06 +0000
                    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-13 00:13 +0000
                      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-13 07:25 +0000
                        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-13 08:25 +0000
                          Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-13 08:46 +0000
                            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-13 08:52 +0000
                    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2026-06-13 00:55 -0400
                      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-13 07:43 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-12 12:42 +0000
            Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-06-09 09:36 -0400
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-10 00:06 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-06-10 08:43 -0400
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-11 00:22 +0000
                    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-06-11 08:57 -0400
                      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-12 00:16 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-06-11 06:37 -0400
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-11 17:42 +0000
                  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-12 00:16 +0000
                    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-12 12:34 +0000
                      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-13 00:11 +0000
                        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-06-13 04:06 -0400
                        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-13 08:36 +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
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Peri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net> - 2026-05-01 10:52 -0400
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Peri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net> - 2026-05-01 10:57 -0400
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Peri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net> - 2026-05-01 11:06 -0400
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-01 14:56 -0400
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? "Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net> - 2026-06-01 23:02 +0000
        Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-02 21:32 -0400
          Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-03 03:16 +0000

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#60746

Fromram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Date2026-02-21 00:24 +0000
Message-ID<books-20260221012132@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
In reply to#60745
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>Some books come to mind, but I have not read any of them:

  Here are quotations from this group from the years starting
  with "202":

|El Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:08:53 -0700 (PDT), Ishaan escribió:
|>>What tutorial are you following?
|>"Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Siebel. Are their any good alternatives
|>to Emacs and lisp in a box that are easier to use? Thanks for the help!
|That's a pretty good book, and Emacs with Slime is the best setup IMO, so 
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
José Manuel García-Patos on 2020-09-26 12:58:32+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Lisp programming questions


|[_]-- try the 
|     Book-- Land Of Lisp
|          which is very simple to start with
|               and it makes a sequence of games
|               working up to a webserver version of Dice Of Doom
|               in CommonLisp 
|          it's written by a doctor of medicine apparently
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
picoVerse on 2021-03-22 02:58:01+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Lisp programming questions


|There are a number of introductory books that have been produced over the
|years. It doesn't matter if some of them are years old, as Common Lisp hasn't
|changed in a while (although some libraries for doing things have).
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Russ on 2022-01-26 20:28:48+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Is using Emacs a good way to learn lisp?


|Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
|by Touretzky, David S.
|ISBN 13 9780486498201
|
|Practical Common Lisp
|by Peter Seibel
|ISBN 13 9781430242901
|
|I haven't read the first. I can recommend the second (for those with some
|programming experience) although it uses LOOP too much for my taste and only
|casually mentions the DEFSTRUCT functionality.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Spiros Bousbouras on 2022-01-29 19:20:29+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Is using Emacs a good way to learn lisp?


|2 books to read absolutely to understand Lisp and its philosophy:
|Ansi Common Lisp
|On Lisp
|Both from Paul Graham. The second one is not printed anymore, but
|available at low cost from lulu.com
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ST on 2022-11-22 06:54:33+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Can someone help me fix a basic recursive function


|When I ventured out into Common Lisp some years back, I found
<Touretzky>
|a very nice read, with lots of small recursive exercises.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Axel Reichert on 2022-11-22 21:36:29+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Can someone help me fix a basic recursive function


|> I searched around for subsets (not very fruitful), but I did happen to
|> find one quite interesting online textbook (apart from the usual
|> suspects), "Learn Lisp the hard way":
|It's an in-progress draft.  It's looking pretty good.  I don't even
|think a book to teach one how to use a language needs that much.  But if
|the author has that much energy, I think it's useful.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Julieta Shem on 2024-01-30 04:37:02+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: common lisp, the untold story


|Peter Seibel's ``Practical Common Lisp'' guides you with the GNU EMACS
|and SLIME.  Chapter 2.  I use the GNU EMACS and SLIME.  It's wonderful.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Julieta Shem on 2024-02-04 15:31:48+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
Subject: Learning the REPL


|- Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach <-novices
|- A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation <-advanced  
|- Paradigms On Artifical Intelligence Programming <- almost expert
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------
usuario on 2024-10-03 21:05:02+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,

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#60747

FromAndreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
Date2026-02-21 11:36 +0100
Message-ID<878qcmidsb.fsf@eder.anydns.info>
In reply to#60746
On Sa 21 Feb 2026 at 00:24, Stefan Ram wrote:

> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>>Some books come to mind, but I have not read any of them:
>
>   Here are quotations from this group from the years starting
>   with "202":
>
> |El Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:08:53 -0700 (PDT), Ishaan escribió:
> |>>What tutorial are you following?
> |>"Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Siebel. Are their any good alternatives
> |>to Emacs and lisp in a box that are easier to use? Thanks for the help!
> |That's a pretty good book, and Emacs with Slime is the best setup IMO, so
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> José Manuel García-Patos on 2020-09-26 12:58:32+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Lisp programming questions
>
> |[_]-- try the
> |     Book-- Land Of Lisp
> |          which is very simple to start with
> |               and it makes a sequence of games
> |               working up to a webserver version of Dice Of Doom
> |               in CommonLisp
> |          it's written by a doctor of medicine apparently
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> picoVerse on 2021-03-22 02:58:01+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Lisp programming questions
>
> |There are a number of introductory books that have been produced over the
> |years. It doesn't matter if some of them are years old, as Common Lisp hasn't
> |changed in a while (although some libraries for doing things have).
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom Russ on 2022-01-26 20:28:48+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Is using Emacs a good way to learn lisp?
>
> |Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
> |by Touretzky, David S.
> |ISBN 13 9780486498201
> |
> |Practical Common Lisp
> |by Peter Seibel
> |ISBN 13 9781430242901
> |
> |I haven't read the first. I can recommend the second (for those with some
> |programming experience) although it uses LOOP too much for my taste and only
> |casually mentions the DEFSTRUCT functionality.
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Spiros Bousbouras on 2022-01-29 19:20:29+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Is using Emacs a good way to learn lisp?
>
> |2 books to read absolutely to understand Lisp and its philosophy:
> |Ansi Common Lisp
> |On Lisp
> |Both from Paul Graham. The second one is not printed anymore, but
> |available at low cost from lulu.com
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ST on 2022-11-22 06:54:33+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Can someone help me fix a basic recursive function
>
> |When I ventured out into Common Lisp some years back, I found
> <Touretzky>
> |a very nice read, with lots of small recursive exercises.
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Axel Reichert on 2022-11-22 21:36:29+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Can someone help me fix a basic recursive function
>
> |> I searched around for subsets (not very fruitful), but I did happen to
> |> find one quite interesting online textbook (apart from the usual
> |> suspects), "Learn Lisp the hard way":
> |It's an in-progress draft.  It's looking pretty good.  I don't even
> |think a book to teach one how to use a language needs that much.  But if
> |the author has that much energy, I think it's useful.
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Julieta Shem on 2024-01-30 04:37:02+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: common lisp, the untold story
>
> |Peter Seibel's ``Practical Common Lisp'' guides you with the GNU EMACS
> |and SLIME.  Chapter 2.  I use the GNU EMACS and SLIME.  It's wonderful.
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Julieta Shem on 2024-02-04 15:31:48+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,
> Subject: Learning the REPL
>
> |- Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach <-novices
> |- A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation <-advanced
> |- Paradigms On Artifical Intelligence Programming <- almost expert
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> usuario on 2024-10-03 21:05:02+00:00 in comp.lang.lisp,

All these books are good.
Let me add two additional ones:

'LISP, Lore, and Logic' by W. Richard Stark

'Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in
Common Lisp' by Peter Norvig

-- 
ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam

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#60750

FromMario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es>
Date2026-02-21 12:44 +0100
Message-ID<87qzqe2uec.fsf@mariorosell.es>
In reply to#60746
> |El Fri, 25 Sep 2020 17:08:53 -0700 (PDT), Ishaan escribió:
> |[...]
> |That's a pretty good book, and Emacs with Slime is the best setup IMO, so 
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I'll try Slime! It looks like a pretty complete environment.

> |Peter Seibel's ``Practical Common Lisp'' guides you with the GNU EMACS
> |and SLIME.  Chapter 2.  I use the GNU EMACS and SLIME.  It's wonderful.
> '-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I'll look into ``Practical Common Lisp'', I guess many people recommend
it :P.

-- 
- mario

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#60773

Fromsteve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com>
Date2026-03-31 17:47 -0400
Message-ID<87ikab7jsk.fsf@gmail.com>
In reply to#60742
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/

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).

there is a printed manual somewhere. emacs is probably the best wy to
learn.

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#60774

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2026-03-31 23:41 +0000
Message-ID<10qhm2d$3p4g2$4@dont-email.me>
In reply to#60773
On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:47:55 -0400, steve g wrote:

> the introduction in emacs on emacs-lisp is actually very good! C-h i
> m elisp (in emacs).

CTRL-H I is roughly equivalent to the “info” command; it shows you
every info file on your system.

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#60775

Fromtpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
Date2026-04-01 13:23 -0400
Message-ID<87tstu1tor.fsf@gmail.com>
In reply to#60773
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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#60781

FromPeri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net>
Date2026-05-01 10:52 -0400
Message-ID<b60136f6-aa41-476d-bbda-905c0add9d9c@torfree.net>
In reply to#60742
On 2026-02-20 16:53, Mario Rosell wrote:
> 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
> 

Another great book is Mark Watson's _Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy's 
Programmer's Secret Weapon_ (last updated April 22nd 2026!)
               https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp

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#60782

FromPeri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net>
Date2026-05-01 10:57 -0400
Message-ID<64b0e0a8-e3c5-475a-9235-63c2b3d293c9@torfree.net>
In reply to#60742
On 2026-02-20 16:53, Mario Rosell wrote:
> 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
> 
Another very good author is Mark Watson, with his excellent, and very 
current book: Loving Common Lisp, or a Savvy's Programmer's Secret 
Weapon' :  https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp .

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#60783

FromPeri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net>
Date2026-05-01 11:06 -0400
Message-ID<a683ef05-25c4-404d-9c30-1594286bb3a1@torfree.net>
In reply to#60742
On 2026-02-20 16:53, Mario Rosell wrote:
> 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
> 
Another very good author is Mark Watson, with his excellent, and very 
current book: Loving Common Lisp, or a Savvy's Programmer's Secret 
Weapon' :  https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp

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#60794

Fromsteve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com>
Date2026-06-01 14:56 -0400
Message-ID<87ldcyum1e.fsf@gmail.com>
In reply to#60742
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


best book that helped me was


Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
Book by Peter Norvig

.

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#60796

From"Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net>
Date2026-06-01 23:02 +0000
Message-ID<RKudnarraKMXkoP3nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#60794
On Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:56:45 -0400, steve g wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> best book that helped me was
> 
> 
> 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.

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 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.

I hope that's helpful.

Cheers,

			--Bruce

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#60798

Fromsteve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com>
Date2026-06-02 21:32 -0400
Message-ID<87ik80cssl.fsf@gmail.com>
In reply to#60796
"Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net> writes:

> On Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:56:45 -0400, steve g wrote:
>
< > Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> 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.

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#60800

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2026-06-03 03:16 +0000
Message-ID<10vo69r$3c3bl$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#60798
On Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:32:42 -0400, steve g wrote:

> With PAIP you can get the source code in java. this should make it
> easier for some people.

Especially if it highlights how convoluted it is to do a lot of the
same things in Java ...

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