[sage-devel] presentation about Maxima at Sage

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:47:58PM -0500, James Amundson wrote:
> dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:48:15PM -0700, Richard Fateman wrote:
>>   
>>> I like Peter Norvig's book, Paradigm's of AI Programming.
>>> Also Paul Graham's books.
>>>     
>>
>> Unfortunately, books on Lisp by Norvig and Graham appear to be
>> unavailable via Amazon or my local librart,
>>
>>   
> Obviously, you already have Peter Seibel's book.

Actually I don't. I *have* spent a lot of time thinking about buying a
copy.

> It would be my first 
> recommendation. (In fact, if you look in the book, you will find a quote 
> from me to that effect.) The other two books I would recommend are Norvigs' 
> Paradigms and Graham's On Lisp. The former is available on Amazon:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Programming-Studies/dp/1558601910/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213821699&sr=8-1

> The latter is only available as a (free!) download from Graham's web page:
>
> http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
>
> In a strange coincidence, a colleague just today gave me his old copy
> of On Lisp.

>> I find reading books is easier on my eyes than reading the screen
>> when I have a lot to absorb.  What is CLHS?
>>   
> The Common Lisp HyperSpec is a cross-referenced version of the Common
> Lisp specification.
>
> http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index-text.html
>
> It's tremendously useful.
>
> --Jim Amundson

Thanks Very Much for all the links!