Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach / Edition 1

by Edmund Weitz

Overview

Find solutions to problems and answers to questions you are likely to encounter when writing real-world applications in Common Lisp. This book covers areas as diverse as web programming, databases, graphical user interfaces, integration with other programming languages, multi-threading, and mobile devices as well as debugging techniques and optimization, to name just a few.

Written by an author who has used Common Lisp in many successful commercial projects over more than a decade, Common Lisp Recipes is also the first Common Lisp book to tackle such advanced topics as environment access, logical pathnames, Gray streams, delivery of executables, pretty printing, setf expansions, or changing the syntax of Common Lisp.

The book is organized around specific problems or questions each followed by ready-to-use example solutions and clear explanations of the concepts involved, plus pointers to alternatives and more information. Each recipe can be read independently of the others and thus the book will earn a special place on your bookshelf as a reference work you always want to have within reach.

Common Lisp Recipes is aimed at programmers who are already familiar with Common Lisp to a certain extent but do not yet have the experience you typically only get from years of hacking in a specific computer language. It is written in a style that mixes hands-on no-frills pragmatism with precise information and prudent mentorship.

If you feel attracted to Common Lisp's mix of breathtaking features and down-to-earth utilitarianism, you'll also like this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484211779
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/31/2015
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	744
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Edmund Weitz is well-known in the Common Lisp community for his open-source libraries and for being one of the organizers of the European Common Lisp Meeting. He has a Ph.D. in mathematics and has been a free-lance Common Lisp consultant for clients in the US, Europe, and Asia since 2002. He now works as a professor for math and computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

1. Symbols and Packages

2. Conses, Lists, and Trees

3. Strings and Characters

4. Numbers and Math

5. Arrays and Vectors

6. Hash Tables, Maps, and Sets

7. Sequences and Iteration

8. The Lisp Reader

9. Printing

10. Evaluation, Compilation, Control Flow

11. Concurrency

12. Error Handling and Avoidance

13. Objects, Classes, Types

14. I/O: Streams and Files

15. Pathnames, Files, Directories

16. Developing and Debugging

17. Optimization

18. Libraries

19. Interfacing with Other Languages

20. Graphical User Interfaces

21. Persistence

22. The World Outside