Title: An Outstanding Introduction to Common Lisp
Product review: This book is an outstanding introduction to Common Lisp and I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone interested in becoming a better programmer. Few experienced programmers would deny the benefits of learning a new language, but with the proliferation of languages that are near clones of others, those benefits are not always significant or obvious.Not so with Common Lisp! Within the first quarter of Practical Common Lisp a reader is introduced to interactive development, code as data, dynamic variable scope, several function calling conventions, syntactic abstraction, and much more. True to the book title, these are tools that are useful in almost every program and their use is demonstrated with practical examples.Finally, a word of warning: once your programming toolbox contains such a wide selection of tools, it is very hard to limit yourself to the handful that most languages provide.
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