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: An older edition of the book is available: [http://www.atarimania.com/documents/LISP.pdf PDF]
 
: An older edition of the book is available: [http://www.atarimania.com/documents/LISP.pdf PDF]
 
* Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman: [https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-1.html Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Second edition] - 1996 - MIT Press - [http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf PDF]
 
* Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman: [https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-1.html Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Second edition] - 1996 - MIT Press - [http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf PDF]
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* David B. Lamkins: [https://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp] - 2004 - Bookfix.com - ISBN 978-3937526003
 
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* David S. Touretzky: [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation] - 1990 - The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company - The 1990 edition is a free download in a PDF format - the revised 2013 edition by Dover has ISBN 978-0486498201
 
 
* Paul Graham: ''[https://ia700807.us.archive.org/16/items/ost-computer-science-onlisp/onlisp.pdf On LISP]''  - 2006 - Public domain LISP tutorial - Not for beginners.
 
* Paul Graham: ''[https://ia700807.us.archive.org/16/items/ost-computer-science-onlisp/onlisp.pdf On LISP]''  - 2006 - Public domain LISP tutorial - Not for beginners.
 
* Richard P. Gabriel: ''[https://archive.org/details/PerformanceAndEvaluationOfLispSystems Performance And Evaluation Of Lisp Systems]'' - 1985
 
* Richard P. Gabriel: ''[https://archive.org/details/PerformanceAndEvaluationOfLispSystems Performance And Evaluation Of Lisp Systems]'' - 1985

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LISP (LISt Processor) is a list processing language, one of the earliest programming language to feature a garbage collector.

History

It was first described in 1959 with working implementations arriving in the 1960s. Popular in early AI research but is also used as a scripting language in packages such as Emacs, later variants have gained functional programming features and most modern variants have also gotten some object-oriented features, but referring to any LISP variant as an object-oriented or a functional programming language is taking religious fervour a step too far.

The main problem LISP originally had in gaining any mainstream acceptance as a programming language was simply performance related, while LISP was perfectly acceptable for writing small programs in, large programs could only be done cost effectively after the advent of virtual memory, but that only happened in the late 60s on mainframes, in the 80s for minicomputers and workstations and in the 90s for microcomputers and by that time the LISP world had become so fragmented that it had difficulty maintaining any traction. This also lead a number of companies to release computer systems in the 1970s and 80s that were specifically designed to run LISP.

See also: Standard LISP

OS/2 Implementations

Libraries

Foreign libraries with LISP or Scheme bindings

  • Cairo - 2D graphics library (CL + Scheme) - Open source
  • LibcURL - Internet URL (WWW, FTP) access (LISP + Scheme) - Open Source
  • Snappy - Compression lib. - Open Source

Programmer's utilities

Editor support
  • Boxer - LISP syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial
  • Lugaru Epsilon - LISP syntax highlighting and auto-indent available as a separate download.
Source code snippets, archives and collections

Small programs or routines that you can integrate into your own programs or study to learn from, but are not delivered in library form.

DOS Implementations

Libraries

Closely related languages

  • Fjölnir - Open source
Editor support
  • Boxer - LISP syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial

Win-OS/2 implementations

  • Apteryx Lisp 1.04 - shareware
  • Golden Common-LISP - Commercial
  • Goldworks - Commercial
  • IBM Common Lisp - As front-end only - Commercial
  • Le-Lisp (ILOG)
  • RefLisp - Open source
  • SCM - Open source

Libraries

Java Implementations

Related languages
  • Clojure - Functional language that uses LISP syntax.
Editor support
  • jEdit - Java based - LISP and Scheme syntax highlighting built in

JavaScript Implementations

Related languages

Publications

Books

  • John R. Anderson; Albert Corbett; Brian J. Reiser: Essential Lisp - Addison-Wesley 1986, ISBN 0-201-11148-9
  • Patrick Henry Winston; Berthold K.P. Horn: Lisp (Third edition) - Addison-Wesley 1989, ISBN 0-201-08319-1
An older edition of the book is available: PDF
CLOS, MOP and PCL
  • Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow: The Art of the Metaobject Protocol - MIT Press 1991, ISBN 026261074
  • Robert R. Kessler, Amy R. Petajan: LISP, Objects, and Symbolic Programming - Scott Foresman 1988, ISBN 0-673-39773-4

Articles, talks, presentations and papers

Slightly misleading title, the talk is more about the package manager ASDF than scripting per se.
  • Pascal Costanza: How to Make Lisp More Special - Originally published in the Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference 2005, Stanford, California, USA, June 19-22, 2005.
  • Richard Barber & George Imlah: Delivering the Goods with Lisp. Communications of the ACM 34(9); pages 61-63 - 1991
CLOS, MOP and PCL
  • BYTE Magazine August 1979 - The LISP issue - Totally outdated by now, but a very interesting read, note that the DJVU version is only 1/20th the size of the PDF version before you download.
Meta-objects
Parallel processing
Introductory articles and mini-tutorials

Links

Tutorials
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