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<div class='copyright'>Copyright © 2003-2004, Peter Seibel</div>
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<p class="salutation">Dear Reader,</p>
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<p class="body"><i>Practical Common Lisp</i> ... isn't that an
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oxymoron? If you're like most programmers, you probably know something
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about Lisp—from a comp sci course in college or from learning
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enough Elisp to customize Emacs a bit. Or maybe you just know someone
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who won't shut up about Lisp, the greatest language ever. But you
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probably never figured you'd see
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<i>practical</i> and <i>Lisp</i> in the same book title.</p>
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<p class="body">Yet, you're reading this; you must want to know more. Maybe you
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believe learning Lisp will make you a better programmer in any
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language. Or maybe you just want to know what those Lisp fanatics are
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yammering about all the time. Or maybe you have learned some Lisp but
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haven't quite made the leap to using it to write interesting software.</p>
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<p class="body">If any of those is true, this book is for you. Using
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Common Lisp, an ANSI standardized, industrial-strength dialect of
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Lisp, I show you how to write software that goes well beyond silly
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academic exercises or trivial editor customizations. And I show you
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how Lisp—even with many of its features adopted by other
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languages—still has a few tricks up its sleeve.</p>
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<p class="body">But unlike many Lisp books, this one doesn't just
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touch on a few of Lisp's greatest features and then leave you on your
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own to actually use them. I cover all the language features you'll
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need to write real programs and devote well over a third of the book
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to developing nontrivial software—a statistical spam filter, a
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library for parsing binary files, and a server for streaming MP3s over
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a network complete with an online MP3 database and Web interface.</p>
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<p class="body">So turn the book over, open it up, and see for yourself how eminently
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practical using the greatest language ever invented can be.</p>
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<p class="close">Sincerely,</p>
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<p class="signature">Peter Seibel</p>
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