Practical Common Lisp

...it has a fresh view on the language and the examples in the later chapters are usable in your day-to-day work as a programmer.
'd1 Frank Buss, Lisp Programmer and Slashdot Contributor
If you're interested in Lisp as it relates to Python or Perl, and want to learn through doing rather than watching,
Practical Common Lisp
is an excellent entry point.
'd1 Chris McAvoy, Chicago Python Users Group
Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.
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cf0 Practical Common Lisp
presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.

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title: Practical Common Lisp
purchase date: 14-12-2005
publisher: Apress
published: 11-04-2005
price: $49.99
pages: 500
net Rating: 4.5
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genre: Lisp
fullTitle: Practical Common Lisp
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country: us
author: Peter Seibel
aspect: Hardcover
asin: 1590592395