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by sph 1254 days ago
Same, still trying to get a good book that's pragmatic and for experienced developers. Many starts from the basics, or don't even talk about stuff like Quicklisp and ASDF.

I want a book to make production-ready software in Common Lisp, not to faff around. The Paul Graham "On Lisp" book seems excellent, and I'll dive into it next.
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kreelman 1254 days ago
I think "Practical Common Lisp" is pretty good. The wikipedia for it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Common_Lisp

A direct link to the PDF is here too. https://github.com/ccceye/computer-book/blob/master/Practica...

Another interesting one is "Land of Lisp", https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/15932...

It's more theoretical, but kind of fun. It's a touch more academic (IMHO) than Practical Common Lisp, but pretty good.

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sp33der89 1254 days ago
Yea this is a thing too, I have no idea what is recommended in the current ecosystem. SBCL + Quicklisp? I don't even really know what ASDF is.
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vindarel 1254 days ago
https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ ? Implementations, Quicklisp and ASDF explained
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sph 1254 days ago
Thank you. I have come across your posts about moving from Python to CL, and the work you've been doing with the cookbook and other libraries is very much appreciated.

Your recent efforts might be one of the reasons there is a little bit of Lisp hype on this forum lately :-)

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sp33der89 1254 days ago
Thank you! That is a very nice resource
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runevault 1254 days ago
If you want true common lisp SBCL is probably the most universally known, and yeah everything I've read indicates one of the first things you should do is download and run the quicklisp setup so you have it working with your environment. Though it is funny how Hard Way did it during initial setup but then hasn't used it at all and I'm a chunk of the way through. Even as a beginner book I'd probably briefly touch on packages because it is so important to modern development.
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runevault 1254 days ago
FYI PG put the PDF up on his site so you can just legally download it.
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sph 1254 days ago
I have bookmarked this version with restored images: https://www.lurklurk.org/onlisp/onlisp.html
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