The other day, I finally bought Peter Norvig's classic
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming,
which everybody in the Lisp community seems to be raving about.
No book review yet, as I haven't even started to read the book. However, a while ago,
I worked through
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
loop, by the way.
I can't wait to find out what the rest of the book is like!
Update 9/2013: Norvig's (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
is just as readable and inspirational as the loop macro code. Highly recommended.
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