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• ANSI Common Lisp

  http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
  By Paul Graham; Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0133708756. Tutorial introduction of essential Lisp programming concepts, plus a convenient, up-to-date reference manual, for ANSI CL.

• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
  By David S. Touretzky; Benjamin-Cummings, 1989, ISBN 0805304924. Fine introduction for beginners; even one who never programmed before in any language will be able to use this book, yet covers all relevant topics thoroughly. Full version online, two formats.

• Lisp Books and Information

  http://www.lispmachine.net/
  Guide to online Lisp resources.

• Object-Oriented Common Lisp

  http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0136059406,00.html
  By Stephen Slade; Prentice Hall PTR, 1998, ISBN 0136059406. Likely the best book available on using a CL environment for uses other than AI programming.

• On Lisp

  http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
  By Paul Graham; Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0130305529. Thorough study of advanced methods, with bottom-up programming as unifying theme. First full description of macros and their uses. Covers important topics related to bottom-up programming: functional programming, rapid prototyping, interactive development, embedded languages. Free download, PDF.

• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

  http://www.norvig.com/paip.html
  By Peter Norvig; Morgan Kaufmann, 1992, ISBN 1558601910. Overview of classical AI programming, valuable history lessons, basic introduction to Lisp, efficiency considerations.

• Practical Common Lisp

  http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
  By Peter Seibel; Apress, 2005, ISBN 1590592395. Focus: putting CL to practical use with example projects: spam filter, ID3 parser, Shoutcast server. Source code downloads. Full version online.

• The Common Lisp Cookbook

  http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/
  Collaborative project; goal: write for CL a work similar to O'Reilly Media's Perl Cookbook.

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