Comment by defgeneric

These notes may appear to be overly critical or an extremely pedantic reading but they're pretty good, and it's bit like like having the teacher across from you while you're reading. But some notes are a little excessive and the teacher comes off as overbearing. For example, the emphasis on the function style is itself pedagogical, hence the avoidance of `loop` and the preference for recursion over iteration. Some are more excessive than that, like Chapter 2 page 18 (the author shouldn't use ~S if it hasn't been properly introduced yet, so sticking with ~A is actually the right choice.). Overall it's a great guide to reading, especially as it gives the student a sense for the higher-order stylistic considerations when writing a more malleable language like lisp.