Lisp

See also scheme

What makes lisp special?

• Rondam Ramblings: Yes, code is data, but that’s not what makes Lisp cool [2018]
• What Made Lisp Different; Paul Graham [2002].
• How Lisp Became God’s Own Programming Language; Oct 2018 by Sinclair Target at Two-Bit History.

Starting to code in Common Lisp

• Articulate Common Lisp – How to write Common Lisp in 2015 - an initiation manual for the uninitiated
• A Road to Common Lisp / Steve Losh; Aug 2018
• Starting a minimal Common Lisp project | notes.eatonphil.com; Mar 2018.
• Getting started with Common Lisp | Dark Chestnut; Aug 2017.
• How I got started with Common Lisp in 2017; Sep 2017 – this one uses roswell, compares different editors (atom, emacs-bare/prelude and portacle), explains a bit how asdf and directory structure works etc., useful.
• Home – the Common Lisp Cookbook

• Features of Common Lisp

• qvm/Lisp Setup Instructions

• qvm/A Primer on Editing & Running Lisp

CL-References

• CLHS: Permuted Symbol Index (I)
• Lisp Machine Manual 1984 by Moon, Stallman and Weinreb.
• Simplified Common Lisp reference – appears to be not complete, but interesting presentation.

Other Lisps

fogus: The German School of Lisp

Right! I’ve been waiting a couple years for Lumen to get some traction. | Hacker News – wherein user shawn shows off the cool things you can do with Lumen Lisp. Reference to Ken Thompson’s “Trusting Trust” paper.

T

• The T Project “T was one of the best Lisp implementations, and set a standard for clean design that few newer dialects have been able to meet.” – Olin Shivers History of T.
• Orbit paper (pdf) by Jonathan Rees

Urn

Urn is a Lisp that compiles to Lua. Its tutorial is one of the friendliest to learn Lisp itslef.

Picolisp

• some fun picolisp code

uLisp

• uLisp – Lisp for Arduino, Adafruit M4, Micro Bit, ESP8266/ESP32, and MSP430 boards.

Notes

To add readline support to the SBCL REPL, use rlwrap

Use quicklisp to discover, install and manager Lisp libraries

Starting SBCL with QuickLisp pre-loaded.

$ rlwrap sbcl --load ~/quicklisp/setup.lisp

Quotes

In C, you are writing assembly constructs disguised as a high level language. In lisp, you are writing compiler constructs (abstract syntax trees) disguised as a high level language. Assembly language targets hardware-oriented geeks. Lisp targets compiler-oriented geeks. Since the two don’t (generally) understand the other’s viewpoint, each hates the other’s favorite language.

– gvb @.

Implement your own Lisp

• Build your own Lisp
• mal: make a lisp in multiple languages.
• Lisp in a few lines of Haskell by Ben Lynn at CS.Stanford.
• krig/LISP: My attempt at implementing the original LISP paper while learning lisp. Nothing special, mostly posted as a homage to McCarthy.

Links

• These years in Common Lisp: 2018 – Vince Zd – Medium
• Lisp and DSLs
• Classic Lisp books
• Writing a Common Lisp Web App in caveman2. Blog written in CL Source
• LispOS: Specification of a Lisp Operating System” (Robert Strandh, 2013) (PDF).
• Discussion on Lisp
• Adam Tornhill’s Programming Pages
• uLisp - Lisp for the arduino
• L-99: Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems
• Pascal Costanza’s Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp

Blogs

• Borretti – Articles. See State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem, 2015

• stablecross.com lisp articles. See The Myth of the Super Programming Language?

• Paul Khuong: some Lisp. See Starting to Hack on SBCL

• malisper.me. See Loops in Lisp Part 4: Series – malisper.me
• Clint Moore
• Lisp journey. See Introducing Replic: an executable and a library to build a readline app in no time - Lisp journey
• Uniform Structured Syntax, Metaprogramming and Run-time Compilation

Videos

• Baggers’ Little bits of Lisp (shorter videos, few minutes each).
• Baggers’ Lots of bits of Lisp (longer videos 1-2 hour).

Algorithms

• Lisp, the Universe and Everything: “Programming Algorithms” Book [WIP book]; Jul 2019.

Lisp Machines

• dump.mntmn.com/interim-paper/

Books

• norvig/paip-lisp: Lisp code for the textbook “Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming” (Also contains PDF of the book).
• Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!
• Practical Common Lisp (free book)
• On Lisp by Paul Graham (free book)
• Lisp Outside the Box; partially completed; original plan
• Full stack Lisp; develop web applications (hence the “fullstack”) using Common Lisp. [Work in progress]

IDEs

The de-facto IDE for most lisps in Emacs. Howver Portacle - A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment is a good, ready-to-go, purpose-built distribution of Eamcs for use on Windows, Mac and Linux.

• Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility | Hacker News

Talks

• This Old Lisp

People

• dlweinreb’s comments | Hacker News ; Daniel Weinreb passed away in 2012.
• Fernando Borretti
• 40ants – “are a group of Lisp hackers. Our goal is to extend Common Lisp’s ecosystem and to solve realworld problems using the most powerful programming language.”

Implementations

• SBCL
• ABCL
• CCL
• Corman Lisp (windows only)
• Allego CL
• Lispworks
• jscl: A Lisp-to-Javascript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp

Distributions

• quicklisp
• ultralisp.org/ – bleeding edge quicklisp

Interesting programs / libraries

• https://github.com/Shinmera/beamer slide show program based on trial game engine. Example slide from ELS 2018.

Discussions/ Comparisons

• Outperforming everything with anything. Python? Sure, why not? : programming … has some discussions on Common Lisp and CLASP.

• Dynamic language compilation discussion, many interesting points about Common Lisp and AOT; Apr 2019.

• Why lisp over Julia (HN).