Common Lisp
Build reusable and extensible class hierarchies using the Common Lisp Object System. Design patterns disappear as you adapt the language to your problem domain.
Getting Started | Common Lisp
This article describes what you need to do to get up and running with Common Lisp. For the fastest solution, see Portacle. It is a portable and multiplatform development environment, with no installation needed. However, Portacle does require using Emacs. For other alternatives, see here. Linux & macOS
Learn Common Lisp
This section contains Common Lisp tutorials and more in-depth guides on specific subjects. Alternatively, you can checkout the books section and find a tutorial you like. Practical Common Lisp is a community favourite.
First Steps | Common Lisp
Lisp syntax is very simple: there are few rules to remember. Syntax is made up of S-expressions. An S-expression is either an atom or a list. Atoms can be numbers like 10, 3.14, or symbols like t (the truth constant), +, my-variable. There’s also a special kind of symbol called keywords, which are colon-prefixed symbols like :thing or ...
Common Lisp Wiki | Common Lisp
Welcome to the Common Lisp Wiki 11 articles since September 2016. This page acts as an index to the rest of the wiki. Quickdocs: Online library documentation and API references. Style Guide; Implementations; Getting Started. Common Lisp books; Reader Macros; CLOS; Software. Libraries and applications written in Common Lisp, and tutorials on ...
Writing Libraries | Common Lisp
In Common Lisp, the build system and the package manager are two separate things. ASDF It lets you define projects – called systems – along with their metadata, dependencies, their source code files, and the order in which those files are loaded.
Continuous Integration | Common Lisp
cl-travis install CIM, a command line utility for managing and running different Lisp implementations under a common interface. The cl command launches a Lisp image, and the -l flag can be used to Quickload a library.
I/O | Common Lisp
The most common way to print data to the screen is using the format function. This is like C’s printf, but embedding a whole language for printing. This chapter of Practical Common Lisp contains a lot of useful format directives. File I/O. You can use with-open-file to safely handle files.
Object Orientation | Common Lisp
In most OOP systems, methods belong to classes. In Common Lisp, methods are instances of generic functions, which can dispatch on not just the first argument, but every argument. This makes functions, rather than classes, the prime mover. Generic Functions and Methods
Editors | Common Lisp
SLIME is the most widely-used Common Lisp IDE. Portacle is a portable and multiplatform development environment. It includes Emacs with Slime, SBCL, Quicklisp and Git.