Last Friday I posted on CodeSnipers about my upcoming Explorations into Lisp. I talk about why anyone should be interested in Lisp. One thing I didn't mention in the article is that the language is required for the artificial intelligence class I'm taking this semester. If you're curious about the content of the course, the syllabus can be found here.
For the Lisp curious, here are some links that can get you started.
Lisp Primer - basics on Lisp. What we're using for this class to familiarize ourselves with the language.
Practical Common Lisp - a free book on-line that I'm looking through.
LispWorks - what we're using in the class for writing and running lisp programs (I don't think I'll be using this for long. I'll probably have a post on this topic later.)
ANSI Common Lisp - Paul Graham's book that I'm also using as reference.
On Lisp - Another Paul Graham book that's available for free on-line. I think this is for more advanced stuff so I probably won't be using it that much in the beginning.
That's it for now. I'll post more interesting stuff and observations once I get a little further along.
