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From: smoliar@VAXA.ISI.EDU (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re:  Introductory books on Lisp
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 14:27:25 EDT
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Back in the dark ages when I was teaching LISP, I used to rely heavily on
THE LITTLE LISPER by Daniel Friedman.  I felt that the important thing about
learning LISP was getting comfortable with expressing yourself in a functional
style and using the format of recursive definitions.  Friedman does an
excellent job of walking you through a broad variety of examples.  You
emerge from this book with a good sense of the power of a "pure" applicative
style of LISP programming.  Having done so, you are now ready for the "real
world" provided by the particular dialect of LISP you will actually be using.