Will reading the Little Lisper help me in learning clojure? [closed]

Question

I plan to pick up the clojure language.

I have at my disposal an old book:

The Little Lisper

I know there are more recent versions of it (The Little Schemer) but I'm wondering if it will help ease me into picking up Clojure. Or should I find other learning resource ?

Answer 1

There are more direct ways of easing yourself into Clojure and Clojure emphasized things like lazy sequences instead of recursion. When reading the little lisper be aware that Clojure has no tail recursion and does not really require it, so some of the recursive patterns in the book wont always work.

It may be more useful to start with clojure and then use the lisp literature to expand your view of the world once you have your foundations in place.

If you are looking to learn more about advanced lisp programming I would suggest On Lisp by Paul Graham. The tag line for the book is learning to write the kind of programs you could only write in lisp.

ps: it's free :)