Links and readings

Erlang

Main site: http://www.erlang.org/

Courses, textbooks and tutorials

• Getting started with Erlang

  http://www.erlang.org/doc/getting_started/users_guide.html

• An Erlang course

  http://www.erlang.org/course/course.html

• Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Claes Wikström, Mike Williams: Concurrent Programming in Erlang, second edition, 1996.

  http://www.erlang.org/download/erlang-book-part1.pdf

  Nice book, but slightly outdated. The first part (that is included in the PDF) is fine.

• Joe Armstrong: Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World, 2007.
• Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson: Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development, 2009.
• Martin Logan, Eric Merritt, Richard Carlsson: Erlang and OTP in action, 2011.
• http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content Learn you some Erlang.

Documentation

Erlang/OTP R14 documentation

http://www.erlang.org/doc/

Common Lisp

There is no main site for CL, so I will have to put more links here than for the other languages.

Recommended Common Lisp books

• Peter Seibel: Practical Common Lisp, 2005.

  http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

  Nice book, but written in an inspirational style which means that it is not strong on details. It may still be a good idea to read this book and get the details elsewhere.

• David B. Lamkins: Successful Lisp, 2004.

  http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/contents.html

  After looking through a number of web resources for CL I decided I like this one best. One problem though—he does not present CL as a functional language.

• Paul Graham: ANSI Common Lisp, 1995.

  Not available on the web. Nice tutorial and good documentation of most of the language.

  Some chapters can be found here: http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html

  Also read Bill Clementson's comments: http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040517.html

Software

SBCL and Slime

• http://www.sbcl.org/
• http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/

If you use Ubuntu, all software used in the course can be installed using the package manager.

Other books and tutorials

• Conrad Barski Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!, 2010.

  Uses simple games to teach Common Lisp. http://landoflisp.com/

• Peter Norvig: Tutorial on good lisp programming style (postscript), http://norvig.com/luv-slides.ps, 1993.
• David J. Cooper, Jr: Basic Lisp Techniques, 2011. http://www.franz.com/resources/educational_resources/cooper.book.pdf
• Mark Watson: Loving Lisp - the Savy Programmer's Secret Weapon, 2002.

  http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/

• David S. Touretzky: Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, 1984.

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

• Didier Verna, How to make Lisp go faster than C, 2006.

  http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v32/issue_4/IJCS_32_4_19.pdf

• Erann Gat, Lisp as an Alternative to Java, 2000.

  http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf

Common Lisp Specification

The hyperspec. Contains a lot of things that are not relevant for beginners. The two links contain the same material in different styles.

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/ansicl/ansicl.htm

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/

CLOS

http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/ECOOP.pdf

Winner of Google AI contest 2010

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/hungarian-lisp-developer-walks-away-with-google-ai-contest/2131

Link Collections

There's a lot of material here, so don't spend too much time exploring these links!

Also, keep in mind that Scheme is a different programming language, so don't read any Scheme tutorials when you are learning Common Lisp!

Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp http://p-cos.net/lisp/guide.html Useful advice for the beginner. From an OOP point of view

Marty Hall http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html

Educational resources http://www.alu.org/alu/res-lisp-education

Haskell

Web page: http://www.haskell.org/

(This page is well organized and contains a ton of links and other useful information, so I don't need to say much about Haskell here.)

Tutorials

A gentle introduction to Haskell http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/

Real world Haskell http://book.realworldhaskell.org/