Practical Common Lisp

Practical Common Lisp

that book is dead sexy —Xach on #lisp

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Introduction: Why Lisp?

Lather, Rinse, Repeat: A Tour of the REPL

Practical: A Simple Database

Syntax and Semantics

Functions

Variables

Macros: Standard Control Constructs

Macros: Defining Your Own

Practical: Building a Unit Test Framework

Numbers, Characters, and Strings

Collections

They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing

Beyond Lists: Other Uses for Cons Cells

Files and File I/O

Practical: A Portable Pathname Library

Object Reorientation: Generic Functions

Object Reorientation: Classes

A Few FORMAT Recipes

Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts

The Special Operators

Programming in the Large: Packages and Symbols

LOOP for Black Belts

Practical: A Spam Filter

Practical: Parsing Binary Files

Practical: An ID3 Parser

Practical: Web Programming with AllegroServe

Practical: An MP3 Database

Practical: A Shoutcast Server

Practical: An MP3 Browser

Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Interpreter

Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Compiler

Conclusion: What's Next?

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