Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!atanasoff.rutgers.edu!lou From: lou@cs.rutgers.edu (lou) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: looking for advanced techniques book for LISP Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 17:23:02 GMT References: <1991Apr10.130052.4210@edsr.eds.com> Sender: lou@atanasoff.rutgers.edu Reply-To: lou@cs.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science Dept., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Lines: 22 In-reply-to: wjb@tantalum..eds.com's message of 10 Apr 91 13:00:52 GMT In article <1991Apr10.130052.4210@edsr.eds.com> wjb@tantalum..eds.com (Bill Biesty) writes: I'm trying to find a book that will show me or give me examples of things that you can do in LISP that make LISP the only language to do them in. I've got Winston & Horn and its an introduction. You might also look at AI Programming by Charniak et all (Erlbaum Publ.) It shows a number of things that are "natural" in lisp. (However, although closures are even more natural in SCHEME than in most other dialects of lisp, this book sticks with Common Lisp, even for the discussion of closures.) You might also want to look up an article by Erik Sandewall "Programming in the Interactive Environment: the LISP Experience" in Computing Surveys vol. 10 no. 1, March 78, p. 35. It is rather old but still gives a nice feel for the general attitude the lisp world brings to programming. -- Lou Steinberg uucp: {pretty much any major site}!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!lou internet: lou@cs.rutgers.edu