What's the best way to learn LISP? [closed]

Answer 1

Pick up The Land of Lisp by Conrad Barski. It is a fun filled introduction to Lisp programming using cartoons and games.

Answer 2

You might want to start with The Little Schemer as a warm-up. It's not a practical book about writing production Lisp programs, but it's a great book for learning how to think in Lisp.

Answer 3

Once I had a problem. I didn't know lisp. So I decided to download LISP in a box.

Then I found myself with an Emacs install without any help or documentation.

Then I had two problems.

Answer 4

I don't know that there's anything special about Lisp that makes it different from learning any other language. You just need to start using it and trying out its features.

One option might be to try a simple project.

Another option, that's specific for Lisp, would be to write an Emacs extension that assists you in your regular work.

Answer 5

MIT has made available an entire LISP course in DIVX and MPEG format. I highly recommend it.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/

Answer 6

I found working through the exercises in "The Little Schemer" really helped hone the recursive, pattern-matching side of my thinking and made working in XSLT considerably easier.