From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: favorite elisp intro for experienced programmers? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:46:28 +1000 Message-ID: <87631drwcr.fsf@jdc.jasonjgw.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277084834 31800 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2010 01:47:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:47:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 21 03:47:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQW6T-0004Og-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:47:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQW6T-0003AF-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44532 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQW62-00038I-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQW61-0000YO-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQW61-0000YA-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQW5y-0004Fm-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:46:42 +0200 Original-Received: from ppp121-45-188-177.lns6.syd7.internode.on.net ([121.45.188.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:46:42 +0200 Original-Received: from jason by ppp121-45-188-177.lns6.syd7.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:46:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp121-45-188-177.lns6.syd7.internode.on.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:b8B90cbs3ZfnVEmSqgBo9iMKWqk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73940 Archived-At: Brendan Miller writes: > What are people's favorite elisp tutorials, books, etc? I'm not an experienced programmer, but not a beginner either. I have been learning ELisp and Common Lisp together. Although there are differences between the two languages which are sometimes quite fundamental, similarities abound (especially if you load the cl library in ELisp). In particular I would recommend Practical Common Lisp, http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ which of the several Lisp books in my possession offers the greatest depth of coverage other than reference works such as Common Lisp, The Language (2nd ed.) and the Common Lisp HyperSpec, both of which I would recommend highly to anyone thinking of exploring Common Lisp.