Common LISP: an interactive approach
Stuart C. Shapiro · 1992
The purpose of this book is to teach the Common Lisp programming language. The book is intended to be a self-paced study guide, requiring additional information from an instructor, manual, consultant, or friend only to fill in the details of the local operating system and a few implementation dependent features. This book is a Common Lisp version of LISP: An Interactive Approach, published by Computer Science Press in 1986. The major motivation for creating the new version was the widespread adoption of Common Lisp as the standard Lisp dialect. In the earlier edition, I presented Lisp in a dialect-independent way and discussed the different approaches of the major dialects. In this edition, however, I am strictly following the Common Lisp standard set out in Guy L. Steele, Jr.’s COMMON LISP: The Language, Second Edition (Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990). (Steele’s book is often referred to as CLtL-2, and I will do so hereafter.) The Lisp version of this book has been used as the text of the Lisp portion of data structures, programming languages, and artificial intelligence courses and as a self-study guide for students, faculty members, and others learning Lisp independently. Draft versions of this book have also been used in Common Lisp courses, artificial intelligence courses, and for self-study.