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Book review: Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2016), by Edmund Weitz

Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov
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A beginner-friendly #Lisp (e.g. pointing out when not to rely on EQL but on EQUAL) #cookbook with #recipes is outlined, with an overview on queues & stacks, character and string predicates, hashtables, alists (with setf on assoc, not the entire association list), plists, multiple value functions, the entire mapping & equality comparison zoo (including concurrency and parallel mapping functions), the #Common Lisp object system, file operations (nice on binary files), tracing, optimization by profiling and declarations, reading and writing popular data formats like JSON and XML, GUI topics, how to compile in different Lisp compilers, etc. ...more
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Book review: Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2016), by Edmund Weitz
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2024Jan 13
A beginner-friendly #Lisp (e.g. pointing out when not to rely on EQL but on EQUAL) #cookbook with #recipes is outlined, with an overview on queues & stacks, character and string predicates, hashtables, alists (with setf on assoc, not the entire association list), plists, multiple value functions, the entire mapping & equality comparison zoo (including concurrency and parallel mapping functions), the #Common Lisp object system, file operations (nice on binary files), tracing, optimization by profiling and declarations, reading and writing popular data formats like JSON and XML, GUI topics, how to compile in different Lisp compilers, etc.

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Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov

1.95K subscribers