由塞贝尔编著的《实用Common Lisp编程》是一本不同寻常的Common Lisp入门书。《实用Common Lisp编程》首先从作者的学习经过及语言历史出发，随后用21个章节讲述了各种基础知识，主要包括：REPL及Common Lisp的各种实现、S-表达式、函数与变量、标准宏与自定义宏、数字与字符以及字符串、集合与向量、列表处理、文件与文件I/O处理、类、FORMAT格式、符号与包，等等。而接下来的9个章节则翔实地介绍了几个有代表性的实例，其中包含如何构建垃圾过滤器、解析二进制文件、构建ID3解析器，以及如何编写一个完整的MP3 Web应用程序等内容。最后还对一些未介绍内容加以延伸。

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