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ANSI Common LISP (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780133708752
ISBN: 0133708756
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: November 12, 1995
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Editorial Review:
This book provides an excellent introduction to Common Lisp. In addition to chapters covering the basic language concepts, there are sections discussing the Common Lisp object system (CLOS) and speed considerations in Lisp. Three fair-sized examples of nontrivial Lisp projects are also included. The book's clear and engaging format explains complicated constructs simply. This format makes ANSI Common Lisp accessible to a general audience--even those who have never programmed before. The book also provides an excellent perspective on the value of using Lisp.
KEY BENEFIT: Teaching users new and more powerful ways of thinking about programs, this two-in-one text contains a tutorial—full of examples—that explains all the essential concepts of Lisp programming, plus an up-to-date summary of ANSI Common Lisp, listing every operator in the language. Informative and fun, it gives users everything they need to start writing programs in Lisp both efficiently and effectively, and highlights such innovative Lisp features as automatic memory management, manifest typing, closures, and more. Dividing material into two parts, the tutorial half of the book covers subject-by-subject the essential core of Common Lisp, and sums up lessons of preceding chapters in two examples of real applications: a backward-chainer, and an embedded language for object-oriented programming. Consisting of three appendices, the summary half of the book gives source code for a selection of widely used Common Lisp operators, with definitions that offer a comprehensive explanation of the language and provide a rich source of real examples; summarizes some differences between ANSI Common Lisp and Common Lisp as it was originally defined in 1984; and contains a concise description of every function, macro, and special operator in ANSI Common Lisp. The book concludes with a section of notes containing clarifications, references, and additional code. For computer programmers.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - thought provoking
This is not an introduction to programming book. Instead it describes how an experienced programmer can use CL. As such, it is very dense. Descriptions of new operators are part of the text, rather than displayed in figures (there is a good reference at the back). This keeps the book small though.
Perhaps the most profound ideas in the book are bottom up programming (modify the language to add the commands you need), coding at the highest-level possible until the problem is well ... Read More
Rating:  - Pragmatic
Paul Graham does a great job of reminding readers in practical ways that designing programs means examining trade-offs of performance, memory use, and simplicity. I appreciate any computer science book that not only introduces a language but also drives the reader toward developing a thought process that will make them implement great solutions in any programming language.
Rating: - When I Hack Lisp this book is with me
Once you move beyond the very basics of Lisp this is a great book to have around. It has nice to the point examples of how to perform common and uncommon tasks in Lisp. In the back of the book there is a small description of the commonly used functions for Lisp. The brievity and size of the book plus the density of the material presented makes for a excellent book to have at your side while you are coding. I wouldn't recommend it for developers or anyone who has never seen Lisp code before but ... Read More
Rating: - a very expressive language
Common Lisp is a bit of a throwback. And so is this book, from 95. There is absolutely no graphics described for Common Lisp here. Not unlike Fortran, C or C++. Here you get a "pure" language, without all that user interface fluff. The lack of an update to this book in 10 years also reflects the stability of Common Lisp. Veterans of C or Fortran should recognise this.
The language itself will be radically different to many readers, if they hail from a typical C, C++ or Java background. ... Read More
Rating: - Great book for a rather powerful yet misunderstood language
I'm a programmer comming from a procedural and OOP background. Some features of Lisp are completely mind-blowing if not right out bizzarre. Even if you're not in the field of AI, Neural Nets, etc. This book teaches you how to use Lisp as a "common," all purpose language.
Grahams's style and exposition are bar-none. As some one already said, the examples might come across as simplistic or even trivial. But after realizing what the author was actually trying to accomplish, one realizes that the ... Read More
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