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Nice work on Rockets: the website feels zippy. Not something you can say of web libraries these days.

What is a good starting point to pick up on newLISP for someone new with programming? I'd like to do some automation (parse lots of unstructured text) to get good data, create PDFs, accept data from email and have a lightweight web front-end.

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I'd start with the newLISP documentation, particularly the Code Patterns page: http://www.newlisp.org/CodePatterns.html

This is what I learned the language from, and after I got a handle on it I just used their reference manual: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/manual_frame.html

I'm planning on writing some "intro to web development with Rockets" white papers, but work is keeping me really busy at the moment.

I recommend picking up the CodePatterns docs. They're always updated and You'll learn a lot from them.

http://www.newlisp.org/CodePatterns.html

Then there is my original Dragonfly documentation

http://dragonfly.apptruck.de/welcome

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