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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: lisp
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Organization: JHU/APL Research Center, Hopkins P/T CS Faculty
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:09:42 GMT
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In article <4kdmhb$mdg@newsbf02.news.aol.com> ptedesco@aol.com (PTedesco) writes:
>In article <4k91k1$4e3@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
>apuleius@ix.netcom.com(William Grosso) writes:
>
>>It's really a cool language. Good references are
>>Touretzky's book (has Lisp" and "Gentle Introduction"
>>in the title) for starters and then Norvig's 
>>_Artificial Intelligence Programming_ for more advanced
>>stuff.
>
>Two more books:  "LISP" by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Klaus Paul
>Horn.
>The reference for common LISP is "COMMON LISP" by Guy L. Steele Jr.

Norvig's book (_Paradigm's of AI Programming_) is certainly the best
overall advanced book on the market, but Graham's _On Lisp_ has better
coverage of macros. The Winston and Horn book (_Lisp_, 3rd Edition) is
a good intro for people particularly interested in AI applications. If
you are not interested in AI applications, Graham's _ANSI Common Lisp_
might be your best bet for a first text.

More complete references for these texts as well as tutorial info, 1
page summary sheets, links to online manuals (Steele's _Common Lisp
the Language_ 2nd ed in HTML and the Draft ANSI Spec in PostScript),
the FAQ for comp.lang.lisp (Kantrowitz/Margolin) and other Lisp
resources is available via my Lisp Tutorial WWW page:
<http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html>.

Cheers-
						- Marty
(proclaim '(inline skates))
