Hi, Nicolas, and thanks. I'm new to clojure (I've been working through Programming Clojure), and most of my long work life has gravitated around c, shell scripts, and perl. That being said, I've tinkered with Lisp dialects for the past twenty-five years (mostly elisp, scheme, and common lisp), and have always struggled with both the overall meaning of Lisp (when should I use it, when should I not?), and with macros.
I downloaded and read the intro to On Lisp, and it looks like exactly what I need. I'm going to work through the book, and make comments here about how it relates to my learning of clojure (assuming that it isn't deemed off-topic noise). Regards, Larry On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Nicolas <bousque...@gmail.com> wrote: > A good book to learn lisp macros, is On Lisp from Paul Graham. This > book really cover advanced topics and concepts, and has many chapters > related to macros. > > The book is freely available in online format from Paul Graham > Website: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html > > On Oct 6, 1:02 pm, Michael Jaaka <michael.ja...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Thanks to all! You have helped a lot! > > Also I will consider reading "Practical Common Lisp". > > > > On Oct 6, 9:42 am, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > You might consider reading Peter Seibel's excellent Practical Common > Lisp > > > which has some nice macro-work in it. If after that you're still hungry > for > > > more, consider Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte. > > > > > Admitted, both cover Common Lisp, but the differences will not keep you > from > > > getting a deeper understanding of how macros work and where and how > they can > > > be used. > > > > > (This is more an answer to the subject of this thread, less to the > question > > > in your body :) > > > > > Regards, > > > Stefan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- *Off the Beaten Path in Technology http://otbeatenpath.wordpress.com * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
