Practical Common Lisp (Expert's Voice in Programming Languages)

Practical Common Lisp (Expert's Voice in Programming Languages)

Now available in paperback― <p> <p> Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world. <p> <p> <em>Practical Common Lisp</em> presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples, such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, author <strong>Peter Seibel</strong> demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.