{"id":132,"date":"2007-11-23T03:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2007\/11\/23\/finished-reading-practical-common-lisp\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T01:05:04","slug":"finished-reading-practical-common-lisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2007\/11\/23\/finished-reading-practical-common-lisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished reading Practical Common Lisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got through the mighty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigamonkeys.com\/book\/\">Practical Common Lisp<\/a> tome. The style of the book is written in a nice mix of theory and practice (with relevant and good examples). My friend Lau asked me why on earth I would want to read a book on Lisp? A fair question since Lisp is really old, actually measured in computer time it might even be called ancient. But I had two main motivations for reading the book, to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/faqs\/hacker-howto.html\">better programmer<\/a> and secondly to better understand new language features introduced in languages like <a href=\"http:\/\/boo.codehaus.org\/\">Boo<\/a> and C#. Just look at the new <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/netframework\/aa904594.aspx\">LINQ<\/a> features in C# 3.0 and specifically this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/charlie\/archive\/2007\/01\/26\/anders-hejlsberg-on-linq-and-functional-programming.aspx\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interesting in a good programming book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got through the mighty Practical Common Lisp tome. The style of the book is written in a nice mix of theory and practice (with relevant and good examples). My friend Lau asked me why on earth I would want to read a book on Lisp? A fair question since Lisp is really old, actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,12,26,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-boo","category-books","category-c","category-lisp","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}