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.

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Peter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.

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Book Title: Practical Common Lisp
Authors: Peter Seibel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0017-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-239-7Published: 07 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-1161-7Published: 02 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0017-8Published: 01 November 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 501
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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