Peter Seibel

Practical Common Lisp is an introductory book on Common Lisp by Peter Seibel which intersperses "practical" chapters along with a fairly complete introduction to the language. In the practical chapters Seibel develops various pieces of software such as a unit testing framework, a library for parsing ID3 tags, a spam …

Moore's Law has crashed. Peak Oil has hit. Computing is no longer cheap and is controlled by the few. Alan Gregoire spends his days squeezing minute optimizations out of code until an unexpected bug leads him into a world of underground hackers bent on changing the system.