This is a not a good guide. Avoid Graham too. PCL is much better. Keene too. See...

auvi · on Feb 25, 2016

For anyone not able to quickly locate the above mentioned items:-

PCL: (Practical Common Lisp): http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ (chapters 16 & 17)

Keene: (Object-Oriented Programming in COMMON LISP: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS): http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-COMMON-LIS...

Warp Speed intro: http://xach.com/lisp/jrm-clos-guide.html

weavie · on Feb 25, 2016

Care to say why? I've coincidentally just been referring to this guide whilst I explore some CLOS. It seemed adequate to me. (Not saying gigamonkeys isn't great - it is just a bit more long winded..)

agumonkey · on Feb 25, 2016

Is it far too short or plain off ? In a similar scope, it reminds me of https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/common-lisp/

I can't find another one cute 'common lisp the right way' set of slides.

oumua_don17 · on Feb 25, 2016

>> Avoid Graham too.

I found this: pg's Ansi Common Lisp while useful will teach you only those parts that pg believes are good in CL. OTOH, PCL teaches you the language almost completely, leaving aside the author's preferences if any.

This may also be one of the reasons why the avoid advice! But ACL is also useful. In fact I started off with ACL and having come from C++, Java suffering from OO overdose, completely skipped anything OO. Was a whiff of fresh air learning that way.

Only when I turned to PCL and had been treated of bad OO by the earlier exercise, did I realize that CLOS is not the typical OO. In fact at times i think it is just no OO, but cannot articulate why for now.

Pair up PCL with LOL (let over lambda) and it can be fun.