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jnxx · 2024-04-22 · Original thread
In respect to Common Lisp, you could look into "Common Lisp Recipes" by Weitz[2], and "Practical Common Lisp" by Seibel[1]. These are industrial-strength systems which were used to built large airline reservation systems.

Scheme is in a way more minimalist and Schemes are not as large, but this might also be give an erroneous impression because they build on the enormous experience with Common Lisp and have boiled down to the most essential parts - it is not the kind of minimalism "the simplest things that could work" but "what turned out to be indispensable in practice", which is a very different thing.

[1] https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

[2] https://weitz.de/cl-recipes/ or https://www.amazon.com/Common-Lisp-Recipes-Problem-Solution-...

jlarocco · 2017-06-29 · Original thread
For a more modern and up to date guide, Edi Weitz's "Common Lisp Recipes" is a great reference: https://www.amazon.com/Common-Lisp-Recipes-Problem-Solution-...

The more I use Common Lisp, the more disappointed I am that it hasn't become more popular. It really is higher level than Python, Ruby, or Perl but with nearly the performance of C and C++.

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