Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on the programming language Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. [1] It features a fairly complete introduction to the language interspersed with practical example chapters, which show developing various pieces of software [2] [3] such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam filter, and a SHOUTcast server. [4]
At the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards in 2006, it won a Productivity Award in the technical book category. [5]
The full text is available online. [6] In a 2006 Google TechTalk, Seibel presented the book's main points in the context of linguistic relativity (the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis). [7]
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... you can check out Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM). A descendant of the Symbolics Lisp machines GUI framework, CLIM is powerful but complex. Although many commercial Common Lisp implementations actually support it, it doesn't seem to have seen a lot of use. But in the past couple years, an open-source implementation of CLIM, McCLIM – now hosted at Common-Lisp.net – has been picking up steam lately, so we may be on the verge of a CLIM renaissance. – From Practical Common Lisp
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