Common Lisp Books

Common Lisp Books

It is really fun to learn Common Lisp. Though it may take time to learn the nuance of different concepts in Common Lisp, it is actually not that hard to learn. Once we become familiar with the basic concepts of the language, we can start to write our own program very quickly.

It turns out that we can really get satisfaction when we write Common Lisp program. Part of the reason is the name of functions in Common Lisp. For instance, there is a really useful function called “describe”, when I enter the word describe I have the feeling that I am talking with the machine.

There are some well-written books, I would recommend the following three books. They are not hard to read and I think they cover most of the aspects in the language.



Practical Common Lisp, by Peter Seibel
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/


Common Lisp: A gentle introduction to Symbolic Computation, by David S. Touretzky
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, by Peter Norvig

http://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Programming-Studies-ebook/dp/B003VWBY1I