Today we discussed creating a list of good Lisp books recommended by the members of our group. I will put together such a list if you all could write down your suggestions and reply to this thread. (The books listed below can be considered included.) It would go up on lisptoronto.org for the time being. For the future: It would be nice to have an open "Toronto Lisp Wiki" that anyone can edit.
attendees: Paul Tarvydas Brian Connoy Vishvajit Singh Aleksandar Matijaca Leo Zovic Doug Hoyte Bryce Moore
a subset of the topics discussed: - old Lisp book from 1984, 2 pages on macros (what was this book?) - Land of Lisp book, lots of drawings - the Little, Seasoned, and Reasoned Schemer books - SICP, SICM, PAIP - International Lisp Conference (and SPLASH, formerly OOPSLA) in Reno, Nevada, attended by Paul * evolving fixes to software bugs * picbreeder.org * QuickLisp * design of the Common Lisp Standard * molecular biology needs good hackers + easier to teach a coder biology than to teach a biologist to code + the genome is in fact much like a computer program + surprisingly much of the genome is unused, filled with junk and old retroviruses - Rich Hickey's talks and presentations * my personal favorite: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey - Lisp/Scheme on the iPad and iPhone - POSIX support in the Windows NT kernel - Homer: a tool for blind people to find their way in buildings