On LISP: Advanced Techniques for Common LISP
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.Tags
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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.
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.
Excellent read for an intermediate to expert LISPer esp the chapters on macros
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Paul Graham, designer of the new Arc language, was the creator of Yahoo! Store
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- Genres
- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 005.133 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Artificial Intelligence/Virtual Reality Software development Computer programming Specific programming languages
- LCC
- QA76.73 .C28 .G73 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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- English, Japanese
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