Of course I beg to differ. The Stuart Halloway's book is fantastic of course, I have it myself. It's absolutely required reading. Stuart does his best to describe the ins and outs of the language while giving a crash course on the Lisp philosophy. And yes Clojure is syntactically different from Scheme and Common Lisp, however many of the non-Clojure texts suggested do a better job explaining the deeper why's of Lisp programming, concepts that go beyond the particular implementation. In fact I would probably recommend the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs as the indispensable Lisp text above all others. But thats just MHO.
David On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Rayne <disciplera...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Telling someone to read a book that isn't even focused on the language > he's trying to learn isn't a great way to help them. Tell him to read > Programming Clojure or something, anything but Common Lisp and Scheme > books, he isn't learning those languages he's learning Clojure. There > is enough information around on Clojure that someone shouldn't be > forced to read a book on a completely different language. > > No offense guys. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
