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A Crash Course in Lisp

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The introductory post for this book, unexpectedly, received quite a lot of attention, which is nice since it prompted some questions, and one of them I planned to address in this chapter.

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    RUTILS provides an abbreviation of the standard funcall to simply call. It was surely fun to be able to call a function from a variable back in the 1960s, but now it has become so much more common that there’s no need for the prefix. ;)

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Domkin, V. (2021). A Crash Course in Lisp. In: Programming Algorithms in Lisp. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6428-7_3

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