Re: quotation question + good lisp doc

["Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao gnu org>]

Timo Korvola <Timo Korvola iki fi> writes:

> On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:10:20 Christopher Roy Bratusek 
> wrote:
>> 2. Someone got a link to a good lisp doc
>
> Read SICP and R5RS yet?
> <URL:http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2008-
> September/msg00024.html>

For a quick intro geared at experienced programmers, see 'Teach yourself
Scheme in Fixnum Days':
<http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html>

I also listed a few books in this post:
<http://programming-musings.org/2007/01/31/a-scheme-bookshelf/>.

or, if you prefer videos,
<http://programming-musings.org/2009/12/23/scheme-lectures-mostly/>

> For Common Lisp, there is Common Lisp the Language
> <URL:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/clm.html>
> and the Hyperspec 
> <URL:http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/common-lisp.html>, but 
> both are reference works.

Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp is pretty good, and freely available
at <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/>.

HTH,
jao
-- 
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of
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