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From: hamscher@HT.AI.MIT.EDU (Walter Hamscher)
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Subject: Introductory books on Lisp
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 10:54:01 EDT
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   Date: Fri, 16 Oct 87 11:03:46 PDT
   From: glasgow@marlin.nosc.mil (Michael G. Glasgow)


	I am new to AIList and AI programming and want to learn Lisp.
   I have been looking through Steele's book, Common Lisp", and
   have discovered that this is more of a reference manual than a
   beginners guide.  What I am wondering is if anyone can give me
   the names of some good introductory Lisp books to get me started.

There are several.  Here are two:

    Winston, Horn, "LISP".  Addison-Wesley (1984 I think).  Teaches
    you common lisp from the atoms on up.

    Charniak, Riesbeck, McDermott "Artificial Intelligence
    Programming" Lawrence Erlbaum (1980).  What every AI programmer
    should know, though unfortunately the lisp dialect is getting a
    bit dated.

Two others I know of but have never had the opportunity to use:

    Wilensky, "Common LISPcraft".  Norton, 1984.

    Brooks, "Programming in Common Lisp."  MIT Press, 1985.

You will undoubtedly hear from the partisans of other books.