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Paul Graham wrote "On Lisp." If ever a book was written by a true hacker, that one is it, and it will be read as long as there are programmable computers.

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> If ever a book was written by a true hacker, that one is it, and it will be read as long as there are programmable computers.

Err. Now I do like that book. But this might be overstating the case.

One day, Clojure is going to sweep the JVM world and all of the declarative folks are gonna read & weep and wonder how their lives were before USSR collapsed.

There are plenty of Lisp books that are just as good or better imo:

The Little Schemer

The Seasoned Schemer

SICP

Lisp In Small Pieces

Practical Common Lisp

C'mon dude, if you're going to flex, you gotta mention Let Over Lambda!

and, of course, Land of Lisp!

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