It's already all over the lisposphere, but that's why they call me Ol' Reliable: I really like Conrad Barski's tutorial Lisp comic, “Casting SPELs in Lisp”.
You have to admire someone with the chutzpah to teach complete Lisp beginners about macros. I do find it a little ironic, though, that the very first line of code(second, if you count the ACL-specific setting of *print-length*) is one with unspecified behavior, the discussion of which has led to many long comp.lang.lisp threads:
(setf *objects* '(whiskey-bottle bucket frog chain))
Whiskey bottle, check. bucket, check. frog, chain, check. It's like Conrad somehow got a snapshot of my brain while I was hacking.
Posted by jjwiseman at December 06, 2004 02:23 PMIt's kind of a chicken/egg problem: SPELs (oh, c'mon, humor me...) are arguably the best reason to use lisp, but also arguably the hardest to learn...
Posted by: Conrad Barski on December 6, 2004 03:42 PMIs it a coincidence that the wizard looks like he's been trepanned? I think not.
Come to think of it, a trepanned alcoholic wizard is probably the best lisp teacher you could have.
He does, doesn't he? You know, there's just something about bald cartoon characters where you have to draw an X on their forehead or their head just looks too flat... or maybe its my imagination :)
Posted by: Conrad Barski on December 6, 2004 10:02 PM