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Practical Common Lisp

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  1. Peter Seibel
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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction: Why Lisp?

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 1-7

  3. Lather, Rinse, Repeat: A Tour of the REPL

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 9-18

  4. Practical: A Simple Database

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 19-36

  5. Syntax and Semantics

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 37-49

  6. Functions

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 51-63

  7. Variables

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 65-78

  8. Macros: Standard Control Constructs

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 79-88

  9. Macros: Defining Your Own

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 89-102

  10. Practical: Building a Unit Test Framework

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 103-113

  11. Numbers, Characters, and Strings

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 115-125

  12. Collections

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 127-140

  13. They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 141-152

  14. Beyond Lists: Other Uses for Cons Cells

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 153-162

  15. Files and File I/O

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 163-177

  16. Practical: A Portable Pathname Library

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 179-187

  17. Object Reorientation: Generic Functions

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 189-202

  18. Object Reorientation: Classes

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 203-218

  19. A Few FORMAT Recipes

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 219-231

  20. Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts

    • Peter Seibel
    Pages 233-243
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About this book

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.

About the author

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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