Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp

This free online book is written with the professional programmer in mind. Using a hands on approach it introduces the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Practical examples of working code provide an in depth view of Common Lisp programming paradigms.

Book Description

This book:

• Provides an overview of Common Lisp for the working programmer.
• Introduces key concepts in an easy-to-read format.
• Describes format, typical use, and possible drawbacks of all important Lisp constructs.
• Provides practical advice for the construction of Common Lisp programs.
• Shows examples of how Common Lisp is best used.
• Illustrates and compares features of the most popular Common Lisp systems on desktop computers.
• Includes discussion and examples of advanced constructs for iteration, error handling, object oriented programming, graphical user interfaces, and threading.
• Supplements Common Lisp reference books and manuals with useful hands-on techniques.
• Shows how to find what you need among the thousands of documented and undocumented functions and variables in a typical Common Lisp system.

Table of Contents

• Why Bother? Or: Objections Answered
• Is this Book for Me?
• Essential Lisp in Twelve Lessons
• Mastering the Essentials
• Introducing Iteration
• Deeper into Structures
• A First Look at Objects as Fancy Structures
• Lifetime and Visibility
• Introducing Error Handling and Non-Local Exits
• How to Find Your Way Around, Part 1
• Destructive Modification
• Mapping Instead of Iteration
• Still More Things You Can Do with Sequences
• Can Objects Really Behave Themselves?
• Closures
• How to Find Your Way Around, Part 2
• Not All Comparisons are Equal
• Very Logical, Indeed…
• Streams
• Macro Etiquette
• Fancy Tricks with Function and Macro Arguments
• How to Find Your Way Around, Part 3
• To Err is Expected; To Recover, Divine
• FORMAT Speaks a Different Language
• Connecting Lisp to the Real World
• Put on a Happy Face: Interface Builders
• A Good Editor is Worth a Thousand Keystrokes
• Practical Techniques for Programming
• I Thought it was Your Turn to Take Out the Garbage
• Helpful Hints for Debugging and Bug-Proofing
• Handling Large Projects in Lisp
• Dark Corners and Curiosities
• Where to Go Next
• Lisp History, or: Origins of Misunderstandings

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