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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Help with Lisp, macros, and books
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 00:30:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 00:30:54 1983
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The text I used when learning Lisp was "Anatomy of Lisp" by Allen, in
the McGraw-Hill CS Series.  Pretty heavy, but gives a good picture of
how Lisp works - really helps in understanding why your program doesn't
work, for example.

Echoing Stan the l.h., a plug for PSL (available from U of Utah, call
Loretta Cruse at (801)581-8224 or Cruse@Utah-20 or harpo!utah-cs!cruse)
- one of its features is a "nice" Algol-like syntax called Rlisp.  No
Lots-of-Irritating-Single-Parentheses.  You can even leave the parens
off of calls to single argument functions, thus:
	a := first rest b;
or
	for each i in l collect foo i;

Of course it also has everybody's fav lisp syntax with all the parens,
too, for you died-in-the-wool (sic) lisp hackers.

=Spencer