Download or read book Programming in Common LISP written by Rodney A. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1985-08-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisp is the second oldest computer language still in everyday use (the oldest if FORTRAN). Lisp was designed to make it possible to compute with abstract symbols rather than with numbers, and was used to do symbolic algebra. This book is about writing good programs in LISP. The dialect chosen to illustrate both LISP and good LISP is Common LISP. It is designed to be used in order, and it makes a fast-paced course (a single quarter) for enthusiastic undergraduates or graduate students with previous programming experience in a modern computer language. It both introduces Common LISP and shows how to write efficient and beautiful programs in it.