Practical Common Lisp

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Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on the programming language Common Lisp by Peter Seibel.{{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}} It features a fairly complete introduction to the language interspersed with practical example chapters, which show developing various pieces of software{{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}}{{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}} such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam filter, and a SHOUTcast server.{{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}}

At the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards in 2006, it won a Productivity Award in the technical book category.{{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}}

The full text is available online.{{Cite book |last=Seibel |first=Peter |date=2005 |title=Practical Common Lisp |url=http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ |publisher=Springer Nature: Apress |isbn=1590592395}} In a 2006 Google TechTalk, Seibel presented the book's main points in the context of linguistic relativity (the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis).{{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}}