Table of Contents

Chapter 1--Lather, Rinse, Repeat--A Tour of the REPL Chapter 2--They Called It LISP for a Reason--List Processing Chapter 3--Control Your Destiny--Conditionals and Iteration Chapter 4--Advanced Control Flow Chapter 5--Strings and Characters Chapter 6--Up Scope! Variables in Lisp Chapter 7--Putting the Fun in Functions Chapter 8--Numbers and Math Chapter 9--Not Just For Lists--Arrays, Sequences and Hashtables Chapter 10--Talking to the Rest of the World--Streams Chapter 11--The Programmable Programming Language--Macros Chapter 12--Programming in the Large--Packages and Symbols Chapter 13--Object Reorientation--Object Oriented Lisp Chapter 14--Beyond Exception Handling--Conditions and Restarts Chapter 15--Turtles All the Way Down--Metaobject Programming Chapter 16--Debugging Lisp Programs

About the Author

Peter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.