Common Lisp
<language> A dialect of
Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc.,
Digital Equipment Corporation,
Bell Labs., Xerox,
Hewlett-Packard,
Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University,
Stanford University, Yale,
MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be
dynamically scoped.
Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of
MacLisp.
It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments.
Generic sequence can either be a list or an
array.
It provides formatted printing using escape characters.
Common LISP now includes
CLOS, an extended LOOP
macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames.
Implementations include
AKCL,
CCL,
CLiCC,
CLISP,
CLX,
CMU Common Lisp,
DCL,
KCL,
MCL and
WCL.
Mailing list: <
[email protected]>.
ANSI Common Lisp draft proposal (ftp://ftp.think.com/public/think/lisp:public-review.text).
["Common LISP: The Language", Guy L. Steele, Digital Press 1984, ISBN 0-932376-41-X].
["Common LISP: The Language, 2nd Edition", Guy L. Steele, Digital Press 1990, ISBN 1-55558-041-6].
