Practical Common Lisp (2005)
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HN comment orderThe Lisp world is really lucky that Peter came along and wrote this book. It was amazing to watch him tease out, soak up, and internalize Lisp culture from all the available sources and then write such a canonical book to share it all with the rest of us. I wish that he would write some more books :).
https://github.com/pcl-ru/pcl-ru - Russian translation of the book, if anybody interested
I can highly recommend this book! I even own a signed copy :) There are many other great Lisp books, but this has been written in more recent times by an author who has before written books about other languages, e.g. Java. As a consequence, I think it is much more hands-on and easygoing for people who had learned some of the mainstream languages first and the examples are also more of this age. It is an excellent and thorough…
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 618
- Total comments
- 284
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-05-04 | Practical Common Lisp ("that book is dead sexy") Online | gibsonf1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2015-04-11 | Today is the 10th anniversary of the publication of Practical Common Lisp | lispm | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-12-03 | Practical Common Lisp (2005)First breakout · Best thread | tosh | 296 | 157 |
| 2018-07-30 | Practical Common Lisp (2009) | tosh | 144 | 84 |
| 2020-02-12 | Practical Common Lisp | lelf | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-12-03 | Practical Common Lisp | spxy | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-01-08 | Practical Common Lisp (2005)Hall induction | bikramgig | 144 | 43 |
| 2023-10-12 | Free Web Book "Practical Common Lisp" | ekiauhce | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-05-29 | Practical Common LispLatest 20+ point return | tosh | 20 | 0 |