Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples, such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp).

Chapter 1--Lather, Rinse, Repeat--A Tour of the REPL Chapter 2--They Called It LISP for a Reason--List Processing Chapter 3--Control Your Destiny--Conditionals and Iteration Chapter 4--Advanced Control Flow Chapter 5--Strings and Characters Chapter 6--Up Scope! Variables in Lisp Chapter 7--Putting the Fun in Functions Chapter 8--Numbers and Math Chapter 9--Not Just For Lists--Arrays, Sequences and Hashtables Chapter 10--Talking to the Rest of the World--Streams Chapter 11--The Programmable Programming Language--Macros Chapter 12--Programming in the Large--Packages and Symbols Chapter 13--Object Reorientation--Object Oriented Lisp Chapter 14--Beyond Exception Handling--Conditions and Restarts Chapter 15--Turtles All the Way Down--Metaobject Programming Chapter 16--Debugging Lisp Programs

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