About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Lisp, Symbolics, Lisp machine, Common Lisp, S-expression, Kent Pitman, Bill Schelter, Gerald Jay Sussman, CDR coding, ACL2, Paul Graham, Richard Greenblatt, Richard Stallman, AI winter, John McCarthy, Lisp Machines, Fexpr, Erik Naggum, Read-eval-print loop, Common Lisp Object System, X3J13, Hal Abelson, Richard P. Gabriel, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Cons, Acornsoft LISP, Louis Hodes, Advice, Append, M-expression, CAR and CDR, Greenspun's Tenth Rule, Tom Knight, Hop, Big ball of mud, Canonical S-expressions, System image, LispWorks, Docstring, TI Explorer, Phyllis Fox, Scieneer Common Lisp, Macintosh Common Lisp, David Luckham, CommonLoops, Little b, Prototype Verification System, Corman Common Lisp, The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents, Mod lisp, Lisp in Small Pieces, S-1 Lisp, Le Lisp. Excerpt: Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (R2004), (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)). From the ANSI Common Lisp standard the Common Lisp HyperSpec has been derived for use with web browsers. Common Lisp was developed to standardize the divergent variants of Lisp (though mainly the MacLisp variants) which predated it, thus it is not an implementation but rather a language specification. Several implementations of the Common Lisp standard are available, including free and open source software and proprietary products. Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. It supports a combination of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms. As a dynamic programming language, it facilitates evolutionary and incremental software development, with iterative compilation into efficient run-time programs. It also supports optional type annotation and casting, which ...
