[ale] Why LISP?

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Aditya" == Aditya Srinivasan <sriad at uab.edu> writes:


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    Aditya> I am interested in learning the functional programming
    Aditya> paradigm.  Are there any particular resources online/books
    Aditya> you would recommend ?

If it ever comes out in stores there's _Higer Order Perl_ which how to
write Perl with a Lisp:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558607013/


There was some kerfuffle with the code in the final proofs getting
completely frelled in the typesetting (kinda ironic given the
conversation about Pythonic whitespace :) and it's been delayed a
little bit longer.  The rough drafts of the chapters were available to
a mailing list and it looks to be very interesting if they can ever
get it onto dead trees.

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