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Ask HN: What is a good resource to learn Lisp in 2022?

25 points| bikramgig | 4 years ago | reply

I have a new year resolution to learn lisp this year. This forum is the inspiration for this resolution. Thank you hn folks. I read some chapters of practical common lisp but it feels a little outdated. Is it still good book to learn lisp? Is there other book recommendation? Is Common lisp a good choice for modern time or is another Lisp recommended now a days? Thanks in advance.

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[+] rg111|4 years ago|reply
Land of Lisp [0] is a book where you learn Common Lisp through coding up games.

I picked it up and it was very good read. I had to abandon it less than halfway because of other responsibilities that I have. I very much plan to go back it. This book is very good, and I recommend it.

SICP is always a classic and worth going through in any stage of your life.

There are also suggestions in Common Lisp website for books [1].

[0]: http://landoflisp.com/

[1]: https://lisp-lang.org/books/

[+] ragebol|4 years ago|reply
There's even a music video for Land of Lisp!
[+] brudgers|4 years ago|reply
"Lisp" covers several languages with significantly different goals.

For Common Lisp I like Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: case studies in Common Lisp because it has short examples of how Common Lisp programs can be put together in practice.

And I think Common Lisp is worth learning because it is an underlying element when it comes to other Lisps like Racket and Clojure and eLisp...they either adopt what Common Lisp does or reject it, but they don't ignore it.

[+] whalesalad|4 years ago|reply
I am curious, too. I have been in the Clojure ecosystem for a minute, but have always been curious about the "real juice" of clisp.
[+] nomorecommas|4 years ago|reply
clisp is a popular implementation of Common Lisp. Many of us also appreciate sbcl, Lispworks, and others. I can't say much about Clojure, other than it's not a Common Lisp implementation.

https://common-lisp.net/

[+] elnatro|4 years ago|reply
Has lisp any niche? What should I build with lisp to actually learn it?
[+] nomorecommas|4 years ago|reply
I guess some use it for AI and machine learning, but those fields are outside my interests. You can do anything in Lisp which could be done in languages like C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

- web browser: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt

- web server: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web.html

- games: https://github.com/lispgames/lispgames.github.io/wiki

- command line utilities: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-pro...

- more ideas: https://awesome-cl.com/ | https://www.cliki.net/Exercices