Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ethz!neptune!mint!marti From: marti@mint.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: A good book for learning Common LISP Message-ID: <14328@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: 8 Nov 90 19:31:38 GMT References: Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: marti@mint.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti) Organization: Departement Informatik, ETH, Zurich Lines: 22 In article dave@cs.fau.edu (David Edward Weiss) writes: >Try "Common LISP" by Guy Steele >It's published by DEC, and it contains EVERYTHING on Common LISP >I have a copy on loan, and it's very good. Aw, come on -- Common LISP, The Language by Guy Steele is certainly a good *manual* (see page xii of the first edition where Steele says "The organization and content of this *manual* were inspired in large part by the MacLISP Reference Manual by David A. Moon and others [...]"). Good books for *learning* Common LISP (see subject line!) might be Winston and Horn's 3rd edition of LISP (Addison Wesley, 1989) or Robert Wilensky's Common LISPcraft (Norton, 1986). (There are others of which I know even less than the above mentioned books ... ) Robert Marti | Phone: +41 1 254 72 60 Institut fur Informationssysteme | FAX: +41 1 262 39 73 ETH-Zentrum | E-Mail: marti@inf.ethz.ch CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland |