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Practical Common Lisp

Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on the programming language Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. It features a fairly complete introduction to the language interspersed with practical example chapters, which show developing various pieces of software such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam filter, and a SHOUTcast server.

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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 software23 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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  1. Seibel, Peter (2005). Practical Common Lisp. Springer Nature: Apress. ISBN 978-1-59059-239-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. Buss, Frank (2005-04-28). "Practical Common Lisp". Slashdot. SlashdotMedia. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  3. H., Ed (2005-11-27). "Thoughts Reading Practical Common Lisp". The Blog That Goes Ping. WordPress. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  4. Staiger, Josh (2006-02-15). "A short review of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp". Josh Staiger. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  5. Siivola, Nikodemus; Upham, Derek; Seibel, Peter; Inoka; Mastenbrook, Brian; Reid, Kevin; Ozten; Kaufmann, Roland (2004–2017). "Practical Common Lisp". CLiki. The Common Lisp Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  6. Seibel, Peter (2005). Practical Common Lisp. Springer Nature: Apress. ISBN 1590592395.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  7. Peter Seibel (2006-05-10). Practical Common Lisp (Video). Mountain View, California: Google. Archived from the original on 2021-12-14. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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