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deepaksurtionMar 15, 2018

Use Practical Common Lisp [0] as the book to start learning Lisp, Common Lisp is the more production version lisp.

Download LispWorks Personal Edition [1], if you want to start working with an IDE setup. Use it when working through PCL. LW also has GUI library, mobile runtimes and other libraries available from QuickLisp [2], CL's package manager to install various libraries.

After working through PCL, you will have a good CL foundation. You can expand your macro (pun unintended) knowledge by working through [3].

Other good resources: PAIP and Land of Lisp. Note about PAIP is more a specific application of CL to solve classical AI Problems, despite that it is still counted as among the best programming books out there. Hope this helps and `Welcome to the Dark Side`.

PS: Except `Land of Lisp` cited in the resources, everything is free.

[0] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html#personal

[2] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

[3] https://letoverlambda.com, http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

[4] http://landoflisp.com, https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

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