| Weblog: | More Lisp—For Free | |
| Subject: | On Lisp not for faint of heart | |
| Date: | 2005-11-29 19:40:23 | |
| From: | eac | |
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I would recommend that On Lisp is not only for programmers already familiar with Lisp, it's for programmers who've done at least one largish (n x 10^3 lines, 1 <= n <= 9) project in it. Especially chapters 11-25, and most especially chapters 18-25. In fact, it recently occurred to me that one excellent way to learn Lisp would be to: 1) Go through SICP. 2) Write some small programs in Common Lisp to learn the differences. 3) Go through chapters 1-6 of On Lisp. 4) Do a large project in Common Lisp with the stuff you learned in chapters 1-6, and with reference help from ANSI Common Lisp. 5) Go through chapters 7-10 of On Lisp. 6) Write some noddy macros. 7) Go through chapters 11-17 of On Lisp, and 18 if you're really gung-ho. 8) Do a large project in Common Lisp, preferably a hard, large project, this time using macros. 9) Go through chapters 18-25 of On Lisp, and feel enlightened. 10) Do another large project in Common Lisp, a hard one, this time using an embedded language specific to your domain.
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