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The other day, I finally bought Peter Norvig's classic
<a href="http://norvig.com/paip.html">Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming</a>,
which everybody in the Lisp community seems to be raving about.
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No book review yet, as I haven't even started to read the book. However, a while ago,
I worked through [[http://norvig.com/paip/loop.lisp][Norvig's implementation of the =loop= macro]],
and ever since then, I knew I had to buy the book. The code contains a good amount of
Lisp macrology, and yet it is clear, concise, and so easy to follow. You can read it
like a novel, from cover to back, while sipping from a glass of _pinot noir_. 
Impressive work.

If you've soaked up enough
Common Lisp to roughly know what =lambda= and =defmacro= do, this is the kind of
code you should be reading to take the next step in understanding Lisp. This is also
a brilliant way to learn how to use <tt>loop</tt>, by the way.
 
I can't wait to find out what the rest of the book is like!

<i>Update 9/2013: Norvig's [[http://norvig.com/lispy.html][(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))]]
is just as readable and inspirational as the loop macro code. Highly recommended.</i>

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