From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Lisp books (was: Re: Closures in Emacs and their usage scenarios.) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:07:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87lf3aeasj.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8894"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:18Xgwg6nCdP5VaXvaIgPOsLGSoI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 03 11:12:26 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWxXm-000277-CM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:12:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40434 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWxXk-0001Ba-A1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 05:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWxTL-0007da-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 05:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWxTJ-0008Un-Et for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 05:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWxTH-0007L5-UQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:07:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133516 Archived-At: Arthur Miller wrote: > Chapter 2 from "On Lisp" by P. Graham has also very nice and > accessible intro to functions and closures: > > https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf?t=1595850613& > > So has also "Let Over Lambda" by D. Hoyte: > > https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap2.html > > Chapter 2 is an entire chapter on closures and using them; > if one is not scared by subtitles like: "Let Over Lambda > Over Let Over Lambda" :) To anyone fluent with the Emacs Wiki, please add a book section with Lisp books. These two and the ones I've mentioned is a good start and from GNU there should be a few as well... @book{land-of-lisp, author = {Conrad Barski}, isbn = 1593272812, publisher = {No Starch}, title = {Land of Lisp}, year = {2010} } @book{lispcraft, author = {Robert Wilensky}, isbn = 0393954420, publisher = {Norton}, title = {LISPcraft}, year = {1984} } -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal