Jul 25, 2012

Some Lisp books

caveat: tthis is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. If you find this post interesting then you might like my yearly best-of posts.

My first Lisp book:

My first Lisp:

My favorite undergrad Lisp/Prolog book:

My favorite Lisp:

The best Lisp book I’ve ever read and could ever possibly read1:

Chouser’s book:

Mind-blowing and bombastic:

excerpts at the author’s site

The best Clojure book for beginners:

Language implementation 101:

Some books are worth any price

On Lisp by Paul Graham

Compiling with Continuations by Andrew Appel2

Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec

LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual by John McCarthy

Applicative Higher-order Programming by Stefan Sokolowski

PAIP

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