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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

Related communities

Language references

Common Lisp
- Hyperspec
- CommunitySpec (a new rendering)
- NovaSpec (a new rendering)
- Spec (as searchable pdf)
- Meta-Object Protocol: alu-original, vanilla-html, HTML5-mobile
- Quick Reference
- Type Hierarchy, (alt w/mop)
- Format summary
- Cheat Sheet
Scheme
- r7 rs
- r6 rs
- r5 rs mirror
Racket
- Reference
- All documentation
Clojure
- Reference

Tools

IDEs for CL
- Plain Common Lisp (CL environment for Windows)
- SLIME, SLY (Emacs)
- SLIMV, Vlime (Vim)
- Slima (Atom/Pulsar)
- SLT (Jetbrains)
- Alive (VScode)
- Lem
- and more (Sublime, Jupyter...)
Quicklisp (CL Library manager), Qlot (project-local library manager)
ocicl (new library manager)
Roswell (CL Environment Setup Utility)

Tutorials/FAQS

lisp-lang.org
The Common Lisp Cookbook
Style Guide Norvig/Pitman
Nikodemus' CL FAQ
Google CL Style Guide (2014)
A Road to Common Lisp (2018) (noob guide)
Udemy Common Lisp course (videos, commercial)
State of the CL Ecosystem 2022 · 2020 · 2015
Where to get help with Common Lisp

Useful Lisp resources

Common-Lisp.net
Awesome CL (CL libraries)
Planet Lisp
Planet Scheme
comp.lang.lisp
CL Professionals Mailing List
Lisp companies
Wikipedia CL
Stackoverflow Lisp questions, CL, Scheme
Code Review (Lisp, CL, Scheme)
Rosetta Code, CL
Mailing Lists, more
ANSI Clarifications and Errata

Search

Videos

Common Lisp

Common Lisp videos

Clojure

Clojure TV

Racket

Racketlang's playlist

Scheme

MIT's SICP lectures

Books

Free, Complete, On-line, Authorized
- Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Touretzky, 1990)
- Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (Shapiro, 1992)
- The Common Lisp Cookbook / Original 2007
- Common Lisp The Language, 2nd Edition [Pre ANSI] (Steele, 1990)
- How to Design Programs (Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi)
- Lisp Outside the Box (unfinished, Levine, 2011)
- On Lisp (Graham, 1993)
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Norving, 1992)
- Practical Common Lisp (Seibel, 2005)
- Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (Scheme) (Shriram Krishnamurthi, 2007-2020)
- The Scheme Programming Language (Scheme) (R. Kent Dybvig, 2009)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, HTML5/EPUB3 (Scheme) (Abelson/Sussman, 1996)
Other Books
- ANSI Common Lisp (Graham, 1995)
- Common Lisp Recipes (Weitz, 2016)
- Land of Lisp (Barski, 2010)
- Let over Lambda (Hoyte, 2008)
- Lisp, 3rd Edition (Winston/Horn, 1989)
- Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS (Keene, 1989)
- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (Kiczales/des Rivières/Bobrow, 1991)
- Essential LISP (Anderson/Reiser/Corbett, 1986)

Food for thought

Implementations

CL Open Source
- SBCL
- CCL
- ECL (embeddable)
- ABCL (for JVM)
- CLISP
- CMUCL, mirror (*nix)
- GCL
CL Commercial
- Allegro CL
- LispWorks multiplatform, iOS and Android
CL Developmental
- CLASP (C++ interop on LLVM)
- JSCL (javascript)
- Mezzano (Lisp OS)
- SICL (Modular)
- alisp (interpreter, C89)
- LCL (lua)
CL Historical
- mocl for OSX, iOS and Android
- Open Genera
- Scieneer CL
- CLiCC (CL→C)
- Corman Lisp (MS-Windows)
- Eclipse Common Lisp
- MKCL (fork of ECL)
- ThinLisp (CL→C)
- WCL (embeddable)
Scheme TODO

Events

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

Related communities

Language references

Common Lisp
- Hyperspec
- CommunitySpec (a new rendering)
- NovaSpec (a new rendering)
- Spec (as searchable pdf)
- Meta-Object Protocol: alu-original, vanilla-html, HTML5-mobile
- Quick Reference
- Type Hierarchy, (alt w/mop)
- Format summary
- Cheat Sheet
Scheme
- r7 rs
- r6 rs
- r5 rs mirror
Racket
- Reference
- All documentation
Clojure
- Reference

Tools

IDEs for CL
- Plain Common Lisp (CL environment for Windows)
- SLIME, SLY (Emacs)
- SLIMV, Vlime (Vim)
- Slima (Atom/Pulsar)
- SLT (Jetbrains)
- Alive (VScode)
- Lem
- and more (Sublime, Jupyter...)
Quicklisp (CL Library manager), Qlot (project-local library manager)
ocicl (new library manager)
Roswell (CL Environment Setup Utility)

Tutorials/FAQS

lisp-lang.org
The Common Lisp Cookbook
Style Guide Norvig/Pitman
Nikodemus' CL FAQ
Google CL Style Guide (2014)
A Road to Common Lisp (2018) (noob guide)
Udemy Common Lisp course (videos, commercial)
State of the CL Ecosystem 2022 · 2020 · 2015
Where to get help with Common Lisp

Useful Lisp resources

Common-Lisp.net
Awesome CL (CL libraries)
Planet Lisp
Planet Scheme
comp.lang.lisp
CL Professionals Mailing List
Lisp companies
Wikipedia CL
Stackoverflow Lisp questions, CL, Scheme
Code Review (Lisp, CL, Scheme)
Rosetta Code, CL
Mailing Lists, more
ANSI Clarifications and Errata

Search

Videos

Common Lisp

Common Lisp videos

Clojure

Clojure TV

Racket

Racketlang's playlist

Scheme

MIT's SICP lectures

Books

Free, Complete, On-line, Authorized
- Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Touretzky, 1990)
- Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (Shapiro, 1992)
- The Common Lisp Cookbook / Original 2007
- Common Lisp The Language, 2nd Edition [Pre ANSI] (Steele, 1990)
- How to Design Programs (Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi)
- Lisp Outside the Box (unfinished, Levine, 2011)
- On Lisp (Graham, 1993)
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Norving, 1992)
- Practical Common Lisp (Seibel, 2005)
- Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (Scheme) (Shriram Krishnamurthi, 2007-2020)
- The Scheme Programming Language (Scheme) (R. Kent Dybvig, 2009)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, HTML5/EPUB3 (Scheme) (Abelson/Sussman, 1996)
Other Books
- ANSI Common Lisp (Graham, 1995)
- Common Lisp Recipes (Weitz, 2016)
- Land of Lisp (Barski, 2010)
- Let over Lambda (Hoyte, 2008)
- Lisp, 3rd Edition (Winston/Horn, 1989)
- Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS (Keene, 1989)
- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (Kiczales/des Rivières/Bobrow, 1991)
- Essential LISP (Anderson/Reiser/Corbett, 1986)

Food for thought

Implementations

CL Open Source
- SBCL
- CCL
- ECL (embeddable)
- ABCL (for JVM)
- CLISP
- CMUCL, mirror (*nix)
- GCL
CL Commercial
- Allegro CL
- LispWorks multiplatform, iOS and Android
CL Developmental
- CLASP (C++ interop on LLVM)
- JSCL (javascript)
- Mezzano (Lisp OS)
- SICL (Modular)
- alisp (interpreter, C89)
- LCL (lua)
CL Historical
- mocl for OSX, iOS and Android
- Open Genera
- Scieneer CL
- CLiCC (CL→C)
- Corman Lisp (MS-Windows)
- Eclipse Common Lisp
- MKCL (fork of ECL)
- ThinLisp (CL→C)
- WCL (embeddable)
Scheme TODO

Events

A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

Related communities

Language references

Common Lisp
- Hyperspec
- CommunitySpec (a new rendering)
- NovaSpec (a new rendering)
- Spec (as searchable pdf)
- Meta-Object Protocol: alu-original, vanilla-html, HTML5-mobile
- Quick Reference
- Type Hierarchy, (alt w/mop)
- Format summary
- Cheat Sheet
Scheme
- r7 rs
- r6 rs
- r5 rs mirror
Racket
- Reference
- All documentation
Clojure
- Reference

Tools

IDEs for CL
- Plain Common Lisp (CL environment for Windows)
- SLIME, SLY (Emacs)
- SLIMV, Vlime (Vim)
- Slima (Atom/Pulsar)
- SLT (Jetbrains)
- Alive (VScode)
- Lem
- and more (Sublime, Jupyter...)
Quicklisp (CL Library manager), Qlot (project-local library manager)
ocicl (new library manager)
Roswell (CL Environment Setup Utility)

Tutorials/FAQS

lisp-lang.org
The Common Lisp Cookbook
Style Guide Norvig/Pitman
Nikodemus' CL FAQ
Google CL Style Guide (2014)
A Road to Common Lisp (2018) (noob guide)
Udemy Common Lisp course (videos, commercial)
State of the CL Ecosystem 2022 · 2020 · 2015
Where to get help with Common Lisp

Useful Lisp resources

Common-Lisp.net
Awesome CL (CL libraries)
Planet Lisp
Planet Scheme
comp.lang.lisp
CL Professionals Mailing List
Lisp companies
Wikipedia CL
Stackoverflow Lisp questions, CL, Scheme
Code Review (Lisp, CL, Scheme)
Rosetta Code, CL
Mailing Lists, more
ANSI Clarifications and Errata

Search

Videos

Common Lisp

Common Lisp videos

Clojure

Clojure TV

Racket

Racketlang's playlist

Scheme

MIT's SICP lectures

Books

Free, Complete, On-line, Authorized
- Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Touretzky, 1990)
- Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (Shapiro, 1992)
- The Common Lisp Cookbook / Original 2007
- Common Lisp The Language, 2nd Edition [Pre ANSI] (Steele, 1990)
- How to Design Programs (Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi)
- Lisp Outside the Box (unfinished, Levine, 2011)
- On Lisp (Graham, 1993)
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Norving, 1992)
- Practical Common Lisp (Seibel, 2005)
- Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (Scheme) (Shriram Krishnamurthi, 2007-2020)
- The Scheme Programming Language (Scheme) (R. Kent Dybvig, 2009)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, HTML5/EPUB3 (Scheme) (Abelson/Sussman, 1996)
Other Books
- ANSI Common Lisp (Graham, 1995)
- Common Lisp Recipes (Weitz, 2016)
- Land of Lisp (Barski, 2010)
- Let over Lambda (Hoyte, 2008)
- Lisp, 3rd Edition (Winston/Horn, 1989)
- Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS (Keene, 1989)
- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (Kiczales/des Rivières/Bobrow, 1991)
- Essential LISP (Anderson/Reiser/Corbett, 1986)

Food for thought

Implementations

CL Open Source
- SBCL
- CCL
- ECL (embeddable)
- ABCL (for JVM)
- CLISP
- CMUCL, mirror (*nix)
- GCL
CL Commercial
- Allegro CL
- LispWorks multiplatform, iOS and Android
CL Developmental
- CLASP (C++ interop on LLVM)
- JSCL (javascript)
- Mezzano (Lisp OS)
- SICL (Modular)
- alisp (interpreter, C89)
- LCL (lua)
CL Historical
- mocl for OSX, iOS and Android
- Open Genera
- Scieneer CL
- CLiCC (CL→C)
- Corman Lisp (MS-Windows)
- Eclipse Common Lisp
- MKCL (fork of ECL)
- ThinLisp (CL→C)
- WCL (embeddable)
Scheme TODO

Events

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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