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They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)

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42 points by optimalsolver a month ago · 7 comments

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ChrisArchitect a month ago

Some previous discussion:

2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162318

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850703

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644067

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096576

deterministic a month ago

I highly recommend writing your own toy version of LISP in whatever language you already know. Just enough to get the basic eval loop working (+ macros if you feel brave).

It is fun and IMHO the best way to learn LISP.

If you get stuck read through one of the many examples online and then try again without looking at those examples.

Antibabelic a month ago

This book is a great introduction to Common Lisp and Lisp in general. Very no-nonsense. Happy to see it here!

  • kjander79 a month ago

    I just wish many of the software projects the code in the book depends on had been maintained. Portable Aserve and the Shoutcast server are two examples that come to mind off the top of my head, and of course the Lisp in a Box environment is long gone, and the replacements, like Portacle, are also getting left behind.

  • pamcake a month ago

    Another good introduction, full-nonsense: http://landoflisp.com/

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