- Land of Lisp
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Lisp is Power
- 1. Getting Started with Lisp
- 2. Creating Your First Lisp Program
- 3. Exploring the Syntax of Lisp Code
- II. Lisp is Symmetry
- 4. Making Decisions with Conditions
- 5. Building a Text Game Engine
- 6. Interacting with the World: Reading and Printing in Lisp
- 6.5. lambda: A Function So Important It Deserves Its Own Chapter
- 7. Going Beyond Basic Lists
- 8. This Ain't Your Daddy's Wumpus
- 9. Advanced Datatypes and Generic Programming
- III. Lisp is Hacking
- 10. Looping with the loop Command
- 11. Printing Text with the format Function
- Anatomy of the format Function
- Control Sequences for Printing Lisp Values
- Control Sequences for Formatting Numbers
- Printing Multiple Lines of Output
- Justifying Output
- Iterating Through Lists Using Control Sequences
- A Crazy Formatting Trick for Creating Pretty Tables of Data
- Attack of the Robots!
- What You've Learned
- 12. Working with Streams
- 13. Let's Create a Web Server!
- 13.5. Functional Programming Is Beautiful
- IV. Lisp is Science
- 14. Ramping Lisp Up a Notch with Functional Programming
- 15. Dice of Doom, a Game Written in the Functional Style
- The Rules of Dice of Doom
- A Sample Game of Dice of Doom
- Implementing Dice of Doom, Version 1
- Defining Some Global Variables
- Representing the Game Board
- Decoupling Dice of Doom's Rules from the Rest of the Game
- Generating a Game Tree
- Calculating Passing Moves
- Calculating Attacking Moves
- Finding the Neighbors
- Attacking
- Reinforcements
- Trying Out Our New game-tree Function
- Playing Dice of Doom Against Another Human
- Creating an Intelligent Computer Opponent
- Making Dice of Doom Faster
- What You've Learned
- 16. The Magic of Lisp Macros
- 17. Domain-Specific Languages
- 18. Lazy Programming
- 19. Creating a Graphical, Web-Based Version of Dice of Doom
- 20. Making Dice of Doom More Fun
- A. Epilogue
- Index
- About the Author
- Updates
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