Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvigby Peter Norvig
Shares rank 38 of 115 programming books by recommenders
Recommended as a core Common Lisp and AI programming book, valued for how it shows an expert programmer's thinking through working code.
Recommended as a core Common Lisp and AI programming book, valued for how it shows an expert programmer's thinking through working code.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Expert author with clear exposition
“you get to see how an expert programmer thinks, Norvig is among the best expositors of programming and CS topics”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think” “Really great book even if don't care about lisp or ai.”
Comment from 21 Apr 2026 in “Laws of Software Engineering” Hands-on exercises and complete code
“where you will implement a micro-Scheme in Common Lisp itself as an exercise”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released” “All the code in the book PAIP by Peter Norvig.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?” Recommended as a core Common Lisp book
“with the introduction to the Symbolic Computation book and Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming you are almost done”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser” “the same with all the good CL books (Intro to Symbolic Computation, Paradigms of AI Programming...)”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7” “I'd jump into PAIP, Paradigms of AI Programming.”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “The seven programming ur-languages”
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| Crafting Interpretersby Robert Nystrom | 60 | 4 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
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| The Pragmatic Programmerby Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas | 28 | 1 | 97% | 7 | — | Approved |
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| Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programmingby Peter NorvigThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you get to see how an expert programmer thinks, Norvig is among the best expositors of programming and CS topics”
“where you will implement a micro-Scheme in Common Lisp itself as an exercise”
“the same with all the good CL books (Intro to Symbolic Computation, Paradigms of AI Programming...)”
“Really great book even if don't care about lisp or ai.”
“I'd jump into PAIP, Paradigms of AI Programming.”
“I complained about it back then.”
“All the code in the book PAIP by Peter Norvig.”
“with the introduction to the Symbolic Computation book and Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming you are almost done”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.