Some of the questions you have about "why lisp" are answered in:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Rich-Hickey-and-Brian-Beckman-Inside-Clojure/
which is about Clojure, a more recent lisp although the ideas are
essentially the same in Common Lisp.
Tim Daly
David Kirkby wrote:
On 5 September 2010 10:14, Mitesh Patel <qed...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David,
On 09/05/2010 03:52 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
I'm quite happy to be that someone who learns Lisp - I'm serious
thinking of buying a book on it. Unfortunately, they tend to be quite
expensive, as do books on writing compilers.
Some time ago, I found "Practical Common Lisp" by P. Seibel, which is
available for free online:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
But I have not read it and am not familar with Lisp.
Sincerely,
Mitesh
Thank you for that - it is one of the books on Amazon I was considering.
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Common-Lisp-Peter-Seibel/dp/1590592395
It's $52.29 on Amazon - to find it free is quite nice.
I also found "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" - all
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html
I want to finish the Solaris port first, getting it building properly
on 64-bit systems. But then I might take a look trying to parse
Mathematica and do something useful with it.
Dave
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