Having recently understood the power of Lisp thanks to reading The Nature Of Lisp and then working my way through the early chapters of Practical Common Lisp (by Peter Seibel, also author of the excellent Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
), I decided to find out more about GUI tools for Lisp.
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No book has had as much impact on my programming as Object Thinking (by David West)
(aff.). I still like to refer to it and I often read the notes I have made from it, I almost think of it as a Philosophy book, that’s how much it has affected me.
Over the coming weeks, I will explore why I am convinced that “thinking like an object” will help your programming, with both practical and more philosophical posts. For this first post, I will write a quick introduction to the subject.
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