Thursday, September 20, 2007

Learn Lisp/Scheme

Peter Seibel, the author of Practical Common Lisp, posted that Google search results list some old tutorials instead of his more recent tutorials and asked for some link love. Some of these old tutorials are severely out of date and don't do much to promote the use of/interest in Lisp.

So, if you are looking to learn more about Lisp, see: Common Lisp tutorial. It is quite good. I spent some time looking at it about a year and a half ago, before deciding to stick with Scheme.

If you are looking for a good introduction to Scheme, take a look at How to Design Programs. It is very good also and is a better introduction to many Scheme concepts than Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It is one of the most frequently sited books for learning Lisp/Scheme. The easiest to use Scheme implementation I have seen is DrScheme. It has a lot of options and works very well with How to Design Programs (some of the authors of the book are also the implementors of DrScheme).

If you are using a Mac, take a look at NewLisp (it's actually cross platform). It's much more modern/easier to setup than some of the other Common Lisp implementations.

Monday, September 03, 2007

Blog Reading

This week's numbers


No decision on axing/splitting any other blogs. Metafilter remains high on that list though.