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I think one of the more interesting examples of great Lisp books is Sussman and Wisdom's Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. From reviews (haven't read it yet - it's on my to-read list), it's highly praised by physicists exactly for its computational approach to classical mechanics and its use of Scheme as notation. You certainly get the notation feeling reading SICP.

Allen's Anatomy of Lisp is the best introduction to language formal semantics I've seen. Too bad it's out of print, but it is a bit dated by now.

Now if you're actually talking about the craft of programming, the two best books ever are Graham's On Lisp and Hoyte's Let Over Lambda. Lisp macros are the best programming tool available today, and those are the only books that go in-depth on macros.




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