On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp (edition 1993)

by Paul Graham

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Shows how to program in the bottom-up style that is ideal for Lisp programming, and includes a collection of Lisp programming techiques that shows how to take advantage of the language's design for efficient programming in a variety of (non-AI) applications.

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Title:	On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
Authors:	Paul Graham
Info:	Prentice Hall (1993), Edition: 1st, Perfect Paperback, 413 pages
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On LISP: Advanced Techniques for Common LISP by Paul Graham

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Excellent read for an intermediate to expert LISPer esp the chapters on macros (

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arocks | May 18, 2011 |

This book teaches how to think in Lisp. Read it after Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, which is really a general Lisp programming book in spite of the title. Graham is a very good programmer and you will learn a lot from reading his code.
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nillacat | Oct 15, 2007 |

A classic book of advanced Lisp hackery, especially involving macros. Contains much stuff that is available nowhere else. If you want to understand why Lisp can do things that no other language I know can, this is the book. (

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Shows how to program in the bottom-up style that is ideal for Lisp programming, and includes a collection of Lisp programming techiques that shows how to take advantage of the language's design for efficient programming in a variety of (non-AI) applications.

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