Practical Common Lisp

Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.

Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples such as the cor...

Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.

Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.

Peter Seibel 从作家演变成程序员，又从程序员演变成作家，其职业生涯可谓一波三折。他在获得英语专业学士学位后做过一段时间的记者工作，后来被Web所吸引。在20世 纪90年代早期，他用Perl建立了Mother Jones杂志和Organic Online网站。他作为WebLogic的早期雇员参与了Java革命，随后又在加州大学伯克利分校教授Java编程。他也是第二代Lisp程序员之 一，并曾经是Symbolics的早期股东。2003年他辞去技术工作，潜心研究Lisp，并凭借本书获得Jolt生产效率大奖。2009年出版了名噪一 时的访谈录《编程人生》（Coders at Work）。