Land of Lisp
Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
Publisher: No Starch Press
Released: November 2010
Pages: 504
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4.0

An entertaining introduction to LISP

By Marvin

from Perth, Australia

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Pros

  • Accurate
  • Easy to understand
  • Helpful examples
  • Well-written

Cons

    Best Uses

    • Intermediate
    • Novice

    Comments about No Starch Press Land of Lisp:

    I had a lot of fun with this book. It doesn't take itself to seriously.
    The use of games to introduce and demonstrate concepts was excellent.
    And there's lot of useful advice on functional programming in general.

    (5 of 35 customers found this review helpful)

     
    2.0

    Look at CLISP before buying.

    By Agnostic

    from Alpharetta, GA

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    Comments about No Starch Press Land of Lisp:

    The book suggests CLISP as the environment to use and the second half of the book requires extensions only available in CLISP. CLISP may be a great environment, but I can't get past the religous symbol displayed on the welcome screen. I tolerate all religions and think all religions should tolerate each other as well tolerating us non-religous folks. And I think the authors of CLISP have the right to put whatever they want on their welcome screen. But I don't care to feel like I am supporting a religion every time I use the environment, so I am not going use it or download it. I wish I had known this before buying the book as I don't think I will read it now.

    (12 of 31 customers found this review helpful)

     
    3.0

    Nice intro to lisp...

    By Little Zanooda

    from San Jose, CA

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    Pros

    • Easy to understand
    • Helpful examples

    Cons

    • Not comprehensive enough

    Best Uses

    • Novice
    • Student

    Comments about No Starch Press Land of Lisp:

    This is one of books you can enjoy reading, the examples are easy to follow and accurate.

    The thing I did not like is the way the author described other languages like Python and ruby..

    They were described as buggy and unreliable programming languages. After years of programming in Python that was a little disappointing to me.

    Every programming language is unique in a way, Lisp is great, Python is cool, and ruby is just a delight!

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