4:29:40minioncer0: look at PCL: pcl-book: "Practical Common Lisp", an introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, available at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and in dead-tree form from Apress (as of 11 April 2005).
4:32:27minioncer0: SICL: SICL is a (perhaps futile) attempt to re-implement Common Lisp from scratch, hopefully using improved programming and bootstrapping techniques. See https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL
4:35:28cer0beach: oh, so is this what you're working on? :o
4:48:51beachAfter my Masters degree, I worked in industry for a few years, and I noticed how insufficient the level of knowledge was in the developers. In fact, insufficiently low for the task at hand. So I quit and did a PhD. The rest is the "traditional" career path.
4:49:22beachApparently, the situation is pretty much the same in the industry today.
4:50:38beachSo, I looked at the first page of buildyourownlisp.com, and I am still amused by the fact that it is often assumed that you need a lower-level language in order to build a Lisp system.
4:53:20no-defun-allowedbeach: I would highly advise against reading any of buildyourownlisp.
4:54:56no-defun-allowedIt uses something...sort of like fexprs in place of macros, but it wouldn't work with lexical scoping as there is no environment passed through.
4:54:58beachSo both the C and the resulting Lisp code are bad.