Re: Lisp Book(s) in the K&R Style

There canot be a K&R like book for Lisp because its a different kind of
language. You see, if you know the rules for tic-tac-toe you know to
play tic-tac-toe but if you know the rules of chess you dont know
chess. Its like that.
I think these 4 books together make good combo,
1)Common Lisp: An Interactive Aproach
2)On Lisp
3)Commmon Lisp The Language
4)Practical Common Lisp

Lisp supports 5 styles of programming
1>Functional
2>Applicative
3>Imperative
4>Object Oriented
Book (1) introduces you to all of them.
Book (2) shapens your lisp skills.
Book (3) tells you a lot about lisp, must read or you will end up
duplicating the functionality already present in lisp.
Book (4) is to learn to work on real world apps.

All these books are free!!!!

Hope this helps,
Nikhil Ketkar

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