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Very good article, though I doubt it'll convince the usual mass of unbelievers. (I love Lisp, for the record, though my primary exposure has been through Emacs Lisp - so shoot me).

A really great book that helps you get appreciate the concepts in Lisp, without really talking about Lisp directly too much, is "Patterns of Software" by Peter Gabriel. http://amzn.to/TxDKGG

I found it to be a very enlightening read. Definitely a book you have to sink into with plenty of time and quiet.



And a good book for folks who already know how to program and want to learn Lisp in some depth is "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/


Richard Gabriel. Though Peter Gabriel would be good too :)


Haha, oops! Too late to edit. Good catch. : )


It would be weird to have Peter Gabriel write about software. My favorite book of his is http://books.google.com/books/about/Introduction_to_Algebrai...


Patterns of Software is available as a free PDF directly from Gabriel's website: http://dreamsongs.net/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf


For whatever it's worth, this article actually convinced me to take plunge when I first encountered it.


>>the concepts in Lisp, without really talking about Lisp directly too much

The book with the same feature is "ANTLR definitive guide".

When I read it I was like: "Ha! It sounds like LISP!", "Ha! It sounds like FORTH!", "Ha! It sounds like Prolog!"

And Terence Parr mentioned none of them.

Amazing!


Please don't use link shorteners, especially ones which don't allow me to edit your link to remove the kickback if that's what I want to do.




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