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Practical Common Lisp

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Apress, Apr 7, 2005 - Computers - 528 pages

Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.

Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples, such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.

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User Review  - Joan - Goodreads

I don't feel that this is the right book if you are new to lisp. If you are completely new to lisp my advice is to go start with scheme. The little schemer and the rest, or if you really want to learn ... Read full review

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User Review  - Kyle The Hacker - Goodreads

Practical Common Lisp is one of those classic Lisp books for the latest generation of hackers. Many other Lisp books are bred in academia and less aimed at hackers who are interested in diving into a ... Read full review

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About the author (2005)

Peter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.

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TitlePractical Common Lisp
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AuthorPeter Seibel
PublisherApress, 2005
ISBN1430200170, 9781430200178
Length528 pages
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