Post #1939290

2026-05-02 10:39 UTC

The book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah Tatar (Digital Press, 1987), along with the errata, is now online with permission from the author. https://archive.org/details/a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp My review of the book: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp #CommonLisp #lisp #books #retrocomputing

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@kalmanreti@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 11:11

@amoroso@oldbytes.space It is about CLtL1 Common Lisp, not Ansi Common Lisp, but interesting nonetheless.

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@KatS@chaosfem.tw 2026-05-02 13:25

@amoroso@oldbytes.space I had the pleasure of meeting her in Porto, while at ELS - it was pure coincidence that she happened to be on campus for unrelated reasons. She's lovely, and seemed bemused that CL is still roughly as popular now as it was then.

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@mason@partychickens.net 2026-05-02 16:51

@amoroso@oldbytes.space Nifty. Thanks for sharing this. Pre-ANSI or not, I love books like this. As much as I love the Internet Archive, I just found a physical copy and ordered it.

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@sgharms@techhub.social 2026-05-02 18:07

@amoroso@oldbytes.space it seems like there’s a renaissance to onboarding folks to lisp again with new ides and someone actually talking about how to program with the repl (per your post). Saved for later!

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@veer66@mstdn.io 2026-05-03 03:11

@amoroso@oldbytes.space I don't see a Fibonacci example, so I suppose it's a great book.

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@sgharms@techhub.social 2026-05-05 18:47

@amoroso@oldbytes.space it’s very good.

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