Practical Common Lisp

Peter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.

Introduction: Why Lisp?.- Lather, Rinse, Repeat: A Tour of the REPL.- Practical: A Simple Database.- Syntax and Semantics.- Functions.- Variables.- Macros: Standard Control Constructs.- Macros: Defining Your Own.- Practical: Building a Unit Test Framework.- Numbers, Characters, and Strings.- Collections.- They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing.- Beyond Lists: Other Uses for Cons Cells.- Files and File I/O.- Practical: A Portable Pathname Library.- Object Reorientation: Generic Functions.- Object Reorientation: Classes.- A Few FORMAT Recipes.- Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts.- The Special Operators.- Programming in the Large: Packages and Symbols.- LOOP for Black Belts.- Practical: A Spam Filter.- Practical: Parsing Binary Files.- Practical: An ID3 Parser.- Practical: Web Programming with AllegroServe.- Practical: An MP3 Database.- Practical: A Shoutcast Server.- Practical: An MP3 Browser.- Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Interpreter.- Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Compiler.- Conclusion: What’s Next?.