Research/ Teaching information on Common Lisp

Kuo-Chieh Ting

University of Houston
Houston TX USA

2003 March 22

Free Avaiable LISP compilers / interpreters

Limitations on trial version

Limited heap size--Windows: 22 MB, Linux (PPC): 21 MB, Linux (x86)/FreeBSD/Mac OS X: 18 MB
No clim, composer,... in Linux, No compiler in windows
New license file required every 60 days

CLISP from Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University
CMUCL from CMU
GCL from FSF
Other free LISP implementation on Cliki

A Guide to Lisp by Pascal Costanz
Basic Lisp Techniques, by David Cooper, Jr., a comprehensive basic Lisp workbook.
CLOCC, the Common Lisp Open Code Collection
Common Lisp Open Source Center from Franz Inc.
The comp.lang.lisp FAQ
David Lamkins' Successful Lisp
Lemonodor - A mostly Lisp weblog by John Wiseman
The Dynamic Learning Center gives academic sample code and learning tools designed to introduce future developers to the power of Common Lisp.
The Common Lisp Cookbook is an online recipe book containing code fragments for many Common Lisp programming tasks.
ELM-ART, an interactive online Lisp Tutorial created by Dr. Gerhard Weber.
Basic Lisp Techniques by David Cooper, Jr., a comprehensive basic Lisp handbook designed to get you coding quickly (100+ pages) in PDF format.

CLiki, a site listing links to and resources for free software implemented in Common Lisp and available on Unix-like systems
The comp.lang.lisp newsgroup
Lispweb, for exchanging messages about Lisp-based web development.
Association of Lisp Users

Common LISPcraft. Robert Wilensky. W. W. Norton, New York, 1986. 500 pages. ISBN 0-393-95544-3.
Lisp (Third Edition). Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold K.P. Horn, Addison-Wesley, 1989. Source code is available
Common Lisp: The Language, 2nd Edition [CLtL2]. Guy L. Steele, Digital Press, 1990.
ANSI Common Lisp. Paul Graham, Prentice Hall, 1996. Source code is available
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky, published in 1990 and now out of print, this excellent introduction is available for free download both in PDF and Postscript format.

Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS. Sonya E. Keene, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Understanding CLOS: the Common Lisp Object System. Jo A. Lawless and Molly M. Miller, Digital Press, 1991.
Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. Peter Norvig.Morgan Kaufmann, 1992. 946 pages. ISBN 1-55860-191-0
On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp. Paul Graham. Prentice Hall, Englewood Clifs, NJ, 1994. 413 pages, ISBN 0-13-030552-9.
Emphasizes a bottom-up style of writing programs. Also has in-depth sections on writing macros. Online version is available