Common Lisp

Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of LISP that adds functional programming, object-oriented and procedural features but cuts down the language features from what was common in the 70's although not as severely as Scheme. It was originally instigated by the USA's department of defence in the early 1980's as LISP variants used by contractors were starting to become so diverse that porting of code between projects was becoming difficult. It has since become the most popular variant of the language but sometimes gets criticised for being rather large in comparison to Scheme.

Standards

Guy L. Steele: Common Lisp the Language - Digital Press 1984, ISBN 0-932376-41-X

This is a publication of the Common Lisp Reference Manual written for the DoD with some additional text and clarifications, due to the number of errors in the original publication the Kyoto report below is considered the de facto standard.

Kyoto Common Lisp Report - 1985

Since the original Common Lisp proposal by the Department of Defence had a large number of errors in it, this document is commonly used as a definition of the original Common Lisp since it clears up most of the errors.

ANSI Common Lisp - ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (X3.226-1994)

OS/2 Implementations

Eco Common Lisp - Embeddable LISP - Open Source - Sort of current
GNU Common Lisp - Open Source - Discontinued
Kyoto Common Lisp - Open Source - Discontinued
Procyon Common Lisp for OS/2 - Commercial - Discontinued

DOS Implementations

Golden Common-LISP - Commercial - Current
Kyoto Common Lisp - Open Source - Discontinued
PowerLisp (MicroProducts)
Star Sapphire Common LISP - Shareware

Publications

David S. Touretzky: Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation - Benjamin/Cummings 1990, ISBN 0-8053-0492-4
Timothy D. Koschmann: The Common LISP Companion - Wiley 1990, ISBN 0-471-50308-8
Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition - Digital Press 1990, ISBN 1-55558-041-6
Peter Seibel: Practical Common Lisp - Apress 2005, ISBN 978-1-59059-239-7

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