2007/9/19, Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm sorry, hit 'send' prematurely. Edited mail below. > > > It's funny that you just mentioned it now, as I was looking at a few lisp > books recently. "Paradigms of AI Programming" has been hailed as one of the > best lisp books ever written (book site here: http://norvig.com/paip.html, > and click on the 'Comments' section). The amazon reviews for it are also > glowing, not to mention the utmost respect I have for its author (Peter > Norvig). Being more specific to what you're asking, quoting Norvig > himself: "Probably > the best book ever on how to write Lisp compilers and interpreters is > Christian Queinnec's *Lisp in Small Pieces*.". You can also look at Paul > Graham's "On Lisp" and "ANSI Common Lisp". > > Hope this helps.
In my opinion is On Lisp somewhat advanced as it concentrates on macros. But in itself it is a great book which teaches _the_ technique of Lisp programming. For a starter i would recommend: Practical Common Lisp http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ This book is going step for step through the process of understanding Lisp and programming "funny" applications. At the end of this book the reader has developed apps as a Shoutcast server and a HTML lib. Also it is easy to read as there are very "dry" books about programming - ANSI Common Lisp is such a dry book -. And PCL is free to read. Because the original poster wanted to make a class from a book PCL is very good for his needs (in my opinion). _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
