Practical Common Lisp

Name: Practical Common Lisp
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ISBN: 9781430242901

ISBN-10: 1430242906

ISBN-13: 9781430242901

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Seibel

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Now available in paperback—Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.Practical Common Lisppresents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples, such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, authorPeter Seibeldemonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database,…

Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Apress L. P.
Publication date: 6/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 499
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.178
Language: English

Peter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online . He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.