Lisp Resources

How to ...

• Use CLISP on gl.umbc.edu
• Install CLISP on your own computer
• Capture output
• Use emacs as a IDE for Lisp

Tutorials, hints and tips

• Chapter 2 of ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham. This is a good introduction
• The Lisp Primer by Colin Allen andManeesh Dhagat.
• A Lisp tutorial
• On quote
• On editors
• Lisp style
• Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style, Peter Norvig and Kent Pittman, August 1993.

References and resources

• Stu Shapiro, COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach, 1992. The complete text of this excellant book that is very good for self-study.
• Paul Graham, On Lisp. This is the complete text of Graham's 1993 book.
• Common Lisp HyperSpec is an HTML version of the official Common Lisp standard that completely defines every function, variable, and construct.
• CLiki is a wiki in and about Commpn Lisp

Things to read

• Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine, John McCarthy (JCM's original paper on Lisp)
• Lisp History, Paul Graham
• JCM's original lisp code -- The Lisp defined in McCarthy's 1960 paper, translated into CL.
• A Brief History of Lisp, Kent Pittman
• The Evolution of Lisp, Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel, ACM History of of Programming Languages Conference(HOPL-II), 1993.

More Lisp implementations

• LispWorks -- a free implementation of Common Lisp (with an IDE) which is available for both Windows and Linux