RE: https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/117133023197588114
Chapter 5 "The Environment" is worth alone the book. At just 10 pages it's one of the best explanations I've seen of the interactive programming style of Lisp, and how to develop incrementally by changing the state of a running image. It also discusses why Lisp has no traditional "programs" and compares a sample application written in BASIC, Pascal, and Common Lisp.
I bookmarked Wendy Milner's 1988 book Common LISP: A Tutorial as I do with others published in those years.
These books are interesting as they reflect the programming idioms of the time and offer different angles on using the language. As a plus, unlike other contemporary works the code snippets of Milner's book are set in a monospace font which improves readability.
