Craig,

If you want to start with Lisp first, I would recommend Scheme,
which is a modern (1975), cleaned-up dialect of Lisp.  An excellent
introduction to Scheme is:

    "The Scheme Programming Language"
                R. Kent Dybvig

The full on-line text seems to be available at http://www.scheme.com .

Also, Wikipedia will point you to free Scheme compilers.

Good luck.

Fritz

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>> On the contrary. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
>> --Brock
>
>
> Brock -- thanks for this link. I paid $60 for that classic book, and
> last year, when I swore off computers (for about two weeks), I donated
> it to the library.  Now I can have it back. :-)
>
>> If you really want to "look into the face of God" check out
>> a modern functional programming language: Haskell.  See
>> http://www.haskell.org
>>
>> Fritz
>
>
> Fritz: Thanks -- the articles I pointed to talk about Erlang and
> Haskell but I thought I'd start with Lisp.  I think I need to grok
> Lisp first.
>
>> I won't claim to be permanently transformed, but I grok Lisp
>> (and functional programming in general) fairly well.
>
>
> Joseph -- I may contact you off-list with an occasional question.  I
> will look into Lisp Newbies resources first, of course.
>
>> If you're interested in functional programming in general, I find that
>> learning XSLT (which is a functional language) is both enlightening
>> and practical, it's also pretty fun, especially with XSL-FO thrown in 
>> for grins.
>
>
> Now that *is* insteresting.  I bounced hard off XSLT too.  I then
> donated my XSLT books to the library.  >:-(
>
> The fact that I bounced off both Lisp and XSLT (while doing fine with
> Python etc) says that there are fundamental concepts which I didn't
> grasp.  I intend to rectify that this time.
>
> I will keep XSLT in mind as I go along.  One of the links I posted
> uses XML as the "gateway concept" to grokking lisp.  Interesting!
>
>> That said, here are a couple books for Lisp that I recall as being 
>> acceptable.
>
>
> Thanks for the book details!  I use abebooks.com and powells.com for
> almost all my used book searches.
>
> Thanks, everyone, for the advice --
>
> Craig
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