Overview

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. Practical Common Lisp 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 Peter Seibel 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.

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Author:   Peter Seibel
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.987kg
ISBN:  

9781430211617

ISBN 10:   143021161
Pages:   501
Publication Date:   02 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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?.

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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.

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