[OT] - Suggest a online resource for learning Lisp for Java programmers.

[Manish Chakravarty]

We ( people from the Java world) think in a certain way and Lisp requires a different way of thinking/problem solving.

As a person comfortable with Java/Ruby/C++ is there any tutorial available online that you would recommend. And why? 

I am also confused as to which dialect of Lisp to pickup.

-- Manish 

[Vivek Khurana]

Pickup comon lisp or lispworks. For online tutorial look at
http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html or read Paul Graham's On Lisp for
starting.
BTW, if you have any special requirements, giving shot to clojure
might be a worth. Clojure runs lisp inside a JVM and can reuse java
libraries.

regards
Vivek

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!!

[Shoan Motwani]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Manish Chakravarty
<manis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a person comfortable with Java/Ruby/C++ is there any tutorial available
> online that you would recommend. And why?
> I am also confused as to which dialect of Lisp to pickup.

You could also follow the MIT lectures on lisp[1] which are part of
the MIT open courseware

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm

Peace,
Shoan.

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Manish Chakravarty

| <manis...@gmail.com> wrote:
| As a person comfortable with Java/Ruby/C++ is there any tutorial available
| online that you would recommend. And why?
| I am also confused as to which dialect of Lisp to pickup.

\--

You could try (uses Scheme):

Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram
Krishnamurthi. 2001. How To Design Programs - An Introduction to
Programming and Computing. Prentice-Hall.

http://www.htdp.org/

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com