Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach. This book is out of print. The publisher has returned the copyright and rights to me, the author. I am making it available here in pdf, and dvi formats, and in two versions of ps format, a heavier font and a finer font, under the following conditions: hardcopies must retain the title and copyright pages; web links must point to this page rather than to a separate copy of the dvi, ps, or pdf file; quotes and other copies of material in the book, including programs, must include the citation: "Stuart C. Shapiro, COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach. W. H. Freeman, New York, 1992. " Thanks to Brian Mastenbrook for the pdf and the finer-font ps files. The notes from an on-line course, CSE 202, using this book, and given in Fall, 2000, is available. An even more up-to-date, faster introduction to Common Lisp, written in Summer 2004 and somewhat biased toward Allegro Common Lisp, is Stuart C.
Book Jacket Quotes quoted with permission of those quoted A Dozen Reasons to Adopt it Table of Contents. Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition. In this greatly expanded edition of the defacto standard, you'll learn about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication - and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by the Vice-Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition plus six completely new chapters.
They cover: README file and the Digital Press catalog with any distributed electronic copies of Common Lisp the Language. Known Bugs The LaTeX sources were converted to html using the latex2html program. We fixed many of the glitches by hand, but may have missed some. When in doubt, check your copy of the original paperbound version. Because latex2html replaces mathematical formulas, tables, figures, and non-ascii characters with embedded GIFs, you may find that some characters drop out when cutting and pasting the text. Acknowledgments.
The Roots of Lisp. May 2001 (I wrote this article to help myself understand exactly what McCarthy discovered. You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the essence of Lisp-- both in the sense of its origins and its semantic core. The fact that it has such a core is one of Lisp's distinguishing features, and the reason why, unlike other languages, Lisp has dialects.) In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry. It's worth understanding what McCarthy discovered, not just as a landmark in the history of computers, but as a model for what programming is tending to become in our own time. In this article I'm going to try to explain in the simplest possible terms what McCarthy discovered. Download. Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation.
This book, with minor revisions, is back in print from Dover Publications and can be purchased in paperback form at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc. An e-book version will be released in late February, 2013. Free software accompanying the book is also available. This 1990 edition may be distributed in hardcopy form, for non-profit educational purposes, provided that no fee is charged to the recipient beyond photocopying costs. All other rights reserved. You may not redistribute the Postscript file, e.g., you may not put a copy on another web page, or include it on a CD-ROM.
Entire book -- Postscript (1.75 MB file) Entire book -- PDF (1 MB file) Figures missing from the book (780K PDF) Free software accompanying this book is also available. Materials provided by David S. Books. LEARNING LISP - Contents. This material has been updated from the original 1984 text which I found it completely by accident in a tarball at this address: There are errors and typos, and the version of lisp (P-Lisp, which ran on the Apple II) predates commonlisp, and no longer exists.
So I encourage you to actually use this to learn Lisp! -- Jeff Shrager , 20060430 The original tarball: [112 Kb] Here's a new tutorial introduction to (LIST Processor), the much-talked-about language of artificial intelligence. Whatever your computer background, this comprehensive, clear-cut primer will teach you one of the oldest languages still in use--one that's simple and fun to learn. You'll become familiar with: basic data structure and functions how to define and edit your own functions trees and recursion advanced programs and much more.
Stop wondering what LISP is all about and what it can do for you. Preface Getting Started Lists, CAR and CDR More Lists Atoms and Values Maps.