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'''''Practical Common Lisp''''' (ISBN 1590592395) is an introductory book on [[Common Lisp]] by [[Peter Seibel]] which intersperses "practical" chapters along with a fairly complete introduction to the language. In the practical chapters Seibel develops various pieces of software such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam filter, and a [[SHOUTcast]] server.

'''''Practical Common Lisp''''' is an introductory book on the programming language [[Common Lisp]] by Peter Seibel.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Seibel |first=Peter |date=2005 |title=Practical Common Lisp |url=https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781590592397 |publisher=Springer Nature: Apress |isbn=978-1-59059-239-7}}</ref> It features a fairly complete introduction to the language interspersed with practical example chapters, which show developing various pieces of software<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://m.slashdot.org/story/56832 |title=Practical Common Lisp |last=Buss |first=Frank |date=2005-04-28 |website=Slashdot |publisher=SlashdotMedia |access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://goesping.org/archives/2005/11/27/thoughts-reading-practical-common-lisp/ |title=Thoughts Reading Practical Common Lisp |last=H. |first=Ed |date=2005-11-27 |website=The Blog That Goes Ping |publisher=WordPress |access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref> such as a [[unit testing]] framework, a [[Library (computing)|library]] for parsing [[ID3]] tags, a [[Email filtering|spam filter]], and a [[SHOUTcast]] server.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2006/02/a_short_review.html |title=A short review of Peter Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp |last=Staiger |first=Josh |date=2006-02-15 |website=Josh Staiger |access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref>

At the [[Dr. Dobb's Journal|Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards]] in 2006, it won a Productivity Award in the technical book category.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cliki.net/Practical%20Common%20Lisp |title=Practical Common Lisp |last=Siivola |first=Nikodemus |last2=Upham |first2=Derek |last3=Seibel |first3=Peter |author4=Inoka |last5=Mastenbrook |first5=Brian |last6=Reid |first6=Kevin |author7=Ozten |last8=Kaufmann |first8=Roland |date=2004–2017 |website=CLiki |publisher=The Common Lisp Foundation |access-date=2019-11-26}}</ref>

The complete text is available online. <ref>http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/</ref>

The full text is available online.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Seibel |first=Peter |date=2005 |title=Practical Common Lisp |url=http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ |publisher=Springer Nature: Apress |isbn=1590592395}}</ref> In a 2006 Google TechTalk, Seibel presented the book's main points in the context of [[linguistic relativity]] (the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis).<ref>{{Cite AV media |people=Peter Seibel |date=2006-05-10 |title=Practical Common Lisp |type=Video |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NO83wZVT0A |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/4NO83wZVT0A |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2019-11-27 |format= |___location=[[Mountain View, California]] |publisher=Google |id= |isbn= |oclc= }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==See also==

*''[[Common Lisp the Language]]''

==References==

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==External links==

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*http://www.cliki.net/Practical_Common_Lisp

*[http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp]

*[http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/1936206&tid=156&tid=6 slashdot review]

*[http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2006/02/a_short_review.html A short review of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp]

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*[http://ablog.apress.com/?p=492 Practical Common Lisp - why did we publish this book?]

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*[http://www.goesping.org/archives/2005/11/27/thoughts-reading-practical-common-lisp/ Thoughts Reading Practical Common Lisp on The Blog That Goes Ping]

*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=448441135356213813 Google Tech Talk from Seibel (video)]

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