Common Lisp

 Lisp (LISt Processing Programming) is a symbolic functional recursive language based on lambda-calculus, used especially for Artificial Intelligence research and symbolic mathematics. It is a very powerful and expressive language with a long history. Early key ideas in Lisp were developed by John McCarthy back in 1956. Since then many important dialects, languages and embedded systems have been developed. Recently, the long work on Common Lisp, an industrial strength dialect of Lisp, has led to a formal ANSI Common Lisp standard. This Common Lisp standard provides several major pieces of new functionality: an object-oriented programming system, a condition handling system, an improved iteration facility, and better support for large character sets.

Documentation:

  

• ``Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition'' , Steele [1990] - see also at CMU ;

• Harlequin's Common Lisp HyperSpec(TM) based on the ANSI Common Lisp standard - see also at Harlequin Group Limited ;

• CLIM 2.0 User's Guide from Harlequin Group Limited - CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager) is a powerful Lisp-based toolkit that provides a layered set of portable facilities for constructing user interfaces;

• Slides from an introductory course on Common Lisp Programming (in german);

• A good text book is ``Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp'', Norvig [1992].
  

Newsgroups:

  

• comp.lang.lisp
• comp.lang.clos
  

Useful Links:

  

• WWW Virtual Library Lisp Resources ;

• Common Lisp Repository at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU);

• Association of Lisp Users .