UT Lisp Users Group?

[Levi Pearson]

On Jul 14, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Mister E wrote:
>
> but as to the original topic: I've sorta ignored this thread, but  
> Lisp sounds interesting, and I don't have any real experience with  
> it, so I'd be interested in being a newbie on it.
>

The books mentioned in the original post in this thread are available  
online.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is not so much a  
Lisp text as it is a Computer Science text, but you learn a great  
deal of Scheme (a Lisp dialect) along the way.  It comes highly  
recommended from CS academia.  There are even video lectures  
available online.

SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
Video lectures: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson- 
sussman-lectures/

Practical Common Lisp is a tutorial-style introduction to Common  
Lisp, which is kind of an amalgamation of the high points of the  
Lisps that came before it, including Scheme.  It's got detailed  
coverage of most of the language, and has great example code that  
actually does useful things and demonstrates how you'd write real- 
world code.  Stuff like spam filtering, unit tests, id3 tag reading,  
mp3 streaming, web apps, etc.  I highly recommend it; it's also way  
more accessible to the casual dabbler than SICP, which is pretty  
intense.

PCL: http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

         --Levi