No comments about Programmer's guide to LISP.

1 comments about Common Lisp: A Tutorial.

1. As you'd expect from the title it's a pretty direct walkthrough of CL, however it is based on Guy Steele's first, 1984 standard and so predates the CLOS. It is introductory level - it has plenty of diagrams and takes the time to explain and give examples for each feature, but it is language- rather than idea-driven, though it was intended for people new to Lisp as well as those just wanting to get updated. The examples are small-scale and it does not give much guidance on design or efficiency, however its layout lets it serve well as a reference. Being older it isn't complete wrt the Hyperspec (the current CL definition, online) - but eg it lacked only 1 keyword, :print-object out of 10 for defstruct, so it seems to be decently comprehensive, and is easier to read and find your way around in.
   
   With this book you're getting the language wrapped in explanation and examples but, not much beyond the basics. What I like about it is that it serves as a clear and cheap (< $20 as of this writing) reference. The one unfortunate lack is the CLOS.

No comments about Lisp: A First Language for Computing (VNR Computer Library).

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No comments about Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems: US/Japan Workshop on Parallel Lisp, Sendai, Japan, June 5-8, 1989, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

No comments about Performance and Evaluation of LISP Systems (Computer Systems Series).

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No comments about The Gnu Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

1 comments about Lisp, Lore, and Logic: An Algebraic View of Lisp : Programming, Foundations and Applications.

1. I am doing masters in computer science. This book is one of the book we are using for our class. I found the book is easy to understand and describes the subject well enough. I just started learning Lisp and after I started to reading the book I do not have any trouble to understand terms or etc. even if english is not my first language. The book has nice examples related with Lisp programming and if there is a given more example will be a lot more useful for the students.It will be a lot better if the book prices little cheaper. I believe book is out of print from the publisher, so if the authors take the copyrights and put the book on the web and let the students or teachers to print the book with acceptable cost that will be great. Thank you