General Notes
Anyone who gripes about the profligate way Lisp uses parentheses is completely missing the point. Parentheses are just the simplest possible way of depicting tree-structures. For instance, the tree:
A
B
1
a
b
2
C
is topologically equivalent to: ((A)(((a)(b))(2))(C)). Lisp requires exactly as many parentheses as it needs to define such trees, and no more.
Below: these are my notes and references, that I’ve found and liked, and remembered to save, and need to remember to look at again, and reorganize if not organize.
Paul Graham’s Lisp FAQ
LSharp - a Lispish .NET package
Steve Yegge: Lisp is not acceptable Lisp
C2: Smug Lisp Weenie
List Processing
So the short explanation of why this 1950s language is not obsolete is that it was not technology but math, and math doesn’t get stale. The right thing to compare Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but, say, the Quicksort algorithm, which was discovered in 1960 and is still the fastest general-purpose sort. —Paul Graham
Lisp looks strange not so much because it has a strange syntax as because it has no syntax; you express programs directly in the parse trees that get built behind the scenes when other languages are parsed, and these trees are made of lists, which are Lisp data structures. —Paul Graham
Lisp humour
Using Emacs as a Lisp IDE
http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/Lambda/
http://www.dynamiclearningcenter.com/ - “features examples designed to introduce future developers to the power of Common Lisp” has a number of “coming soon” pages, but some examples of pattterns (see below) etc.
Lisp references, from Dynamic Learning Center
the journal Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
Programming: You’re Doing it Wrong - a glower from McCarthy
The Little Lisper is available online
it’s now known as The Little Schemer and has been expanded, and has sequels
C2wiki on The Little Schemer
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1521
SICP “in” other (programming) languages, ie, using other languages to think about the same concepts
LOGO is almost Lisp - see Programming.Logo
http://reddit.com/search?q=lisp
Pascal Costanza’s Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp
http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/lisp-companies/
Every language tells a story, this one is Common Lisp’s
Programming
human-order sorting. See also: Programming.Sort
Touretzky’s Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
The Little Schemer (partial book)
Paul Graham’s On Lisp - free as PDF, essays, links, & more.
Practical Common Lisp - entire text of the APress book; I bought one in paper, anyway
Steve Yegge: Lisp Wins
Common Lisp: first contact - introduction, PDF of the book
see also: Emacs.ELisp
Design Patterns
http://www.norvig.com/lisp_talk_final.htm
Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming
2 patterns in Lisp
See Also: Programming.DesignPatterns and Programming.FunctionalProgramming#DesignPatterns
Implementations
Movitz - on-the-metal Lisp dev-environment
See Also
Scheme
Emacs.E Lisp
Programming/Logo