Book description
Lisp has been hailed as the world s most powerful programming language, but its cryptic syntax and academic reputation can be enough to scare off even experienced programmers. Those dark days are finally over Land of Lisp brings the power of functional programming to the people! With his brilliantly quirky…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Land Of Lisp as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Lisp will always have a special place in my brain, not language can be as expressive and molded to what the programmer wants to do in my opinion.
Learning a programming language can be a bit dry, but not in the case of Land of Lisp, honestly I just found this book to be fun from beginning to end, and even so I was already familiar with Lisp before reading it I actually followed all the way through not skipping a page.
Yes Lisp is hardly in use these days, but if you know it you will find its concepts…
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