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Common Lisp resources

2023-08-12

Common Lisp is a lisp dialect with an official ANSI specification (X3J13), but multiple different implementations. The one I primarly use is ECL, but I'm also using SBCL sometimes, which is the most popular choice. There should be no difference regardless of which implementation you go with.

Lisp is a wonderful language, and below is a list of resources for learning more about Common Lisp, also for my future reference.

Common Lisp HyperSpec:

• http://clhs.lisp.se/
• http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Front/Contents.htm

The Common Lisp Cookbook:

• https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

Common Lisp Style Guide:

• https://lisp-lang.org/style-guide/

Quickdocs:

• https://quickdocs.org/

Quickref, index of libraries:

• https://quickref.common-lisp.net/index-per-library.html

Book "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel:

• https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Book "Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition" by Guy L. Steele Jr.:

• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/clm/node1.html

Book "On Lisp" by Paul Graham:

• http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Book "Let Over Lambda" by Douge Hoyte:

• https://letoverlambda.com/

Other links:

• A Road to Common Lisp: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
• Common Lisp Wikibook: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/First_steps/Experienced_tutorial
• Common Lisp in Practice: https://atomized.org/blog/2020/07/06/common-lisp-in-practice/
• Sean's Lisp Tutorial: https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/lisp/LispTutorial.html
• Successfull Lisp PDF: https://www.ebixio.com/online_docs/SuccessfulLisp.pdf
• lisp-lang website: https://lisp-lang.org/learn/
• lisp-stat website: https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/tutorials/basics/

Happy hacking!