Alain Picard  <apicard+die-spammer-die@optushome.com.au> wrote:
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| I haven't seen any "Lisp in 21 days" books yet.  (Should I write one? ;-)
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Maybe a (small) group should get together and just translate (if we can
get his permission) Dorai Sitaram's "Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days"
<URL:http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html> into
Common Lisp syntax and idioms. It would need some work to add special
variables (though it already covers FLUID-LET), the chapter on macros
would be significantly different, and the continuation (call/cc etc.)
stuff would have to be converted to talking about exceptions/conditions
and threads (e.g., the "engines" stuff). On the other hand, the presentations
of some topics would even be simpler (e.g., a lot of the development in
the chapter on "Alists & Tables" could be simplified by changing it to
"Alists & Hash Tables"). 

All in all I think it'd be a good template to work from.


-Rob

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