{"id":190,"date":"2016-03-15T06:13:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T06:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2017-03-12T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T13:05:02","slug":"book-review-common-lisp-recipes-by-edi-weitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/15\/book-review-common-lisp-recipes-by-edi-weitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Common Lisp Recipes – A Problem-Solution Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday (March 12, 2016), I got my most eagerly awaited book from Amazon.com. Yes, I am talking about Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0authored by Dr.Edmund Weitz<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you have been programming in Lisp for a couple of years, you would have definitely heard of Dr.Edi Weitz<\/a>, and most probably you would have used at least one of his several libraries. I have used his REDUNZL<\/a>, DRAKMA<\/a>\u00a0 and CL-PPCRE<\/a>. If you recall, my previous post on Converting Text to Music<\/a>\u00a0used his DRAKMA library.<\/p>\n

Coming back to the book, it is a piece of jewel. There are 22 chapters in the book and each chapter discusses several commonly encountered programming issues with a nice explanation of how to solve them. There is considerable breadth and depth. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the chapters on Concurrency (using Bordeaux Threads<\/a>) and Error Handling. There is elaborate discussion on Optimization in a separate chapter. Building GUI apps, Interfacing to other languages and Persistence are also covered in sufficient detail. I was pleasantly surprised to find even a brief discussion on Lisp for Mobile devices.<\/p>\n

Overall, an amazing book and one that must be on your desk if you are a serious Lisp developer. Mind you, this book is not a Lisp tutorial, so do not buy the book thinking you can start learning Lisp from it. There are many other good books for that. See my related post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong>\u00a0 Common Lisp Recipes – A Problem-Solution Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> Dr.Edmund Weitz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Apress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Year:<\/strong> 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pages:<\/strong> 745<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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