How to get started with Lisp

Question

After reading a lot of interesting articles, I decided to try out Lisp. But, where can I download 'what' to get started with Lisp?

Lisp wiki page also doesn't have any official website.

What are the dedicated lisp resources?

Answer 1

Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel is an amazing way to start learning Common Lisp and what got me started writing useful code on day 1.

What dialects are you interested in? What are your goals?

Answer 2

The easiest IMHO is to start with Racket, very capable dialect of Lisp with nice IDE and a lot of documentation and learning materials for any level.

Racket was initially created as a tool for learning programming, but grew into full-feature language with IDE and exhaustive set of libraries for different tasks.

You can do web apps, as well as stand-alone GUI apps right out of the box.

Answer 3

The Land of Lisp is also a great resource as well as its companion web site lisperati

One of the interesting lisp dialects these days is Clojure - which runs on the JavaVM and can very well interface with existing Java code.

Answer 4

I would start with finding a good IDE. In my short time with LISP I used Lispworks.