Practical Common Lisp

Seibel, a programmer, covers syntax and semantics of Common Lisp and shows how to write software in this guide for programmers and students. Early chapters cover the language itself, and later practical chapters help readers write programs for filtering spam, parsing binary fields, cataloging MP3s, streaming MP3s over a network, and providing a Web interface for the MP3 catalog and server. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.