ANSI Common LISP

ANSI Common LISP

KEYBENEFIT: Teaching users new and more powerful ways of thinking aboutprograms, this two-in-one text contains a tutorial—full ofexamples—that explains all the essential concepts of Lisp programming,plus an up-to-date summary of ANSI Common Lisp, listing every operator inthe language. Informative and fun, it gives users everything they need to startwriting programs in Lisp both efficiently and effectively, and highlights suchinnovative Lisp features as automatic memory management, manifest typing,closures, and more. Dividing material into two parts, thetutorial half of the book covers subject-by-subject the essential core ofCommon Lisp, and sums up lessons of preceding chapters in two examples of realapplications: a backward-chainer, and an embedded language for object-orientedprogramming. Consisting of three appendices, the summary half of the book givessource code for a selection of widely used Common Lisp operators, withdefinitions that offer a comprehensive explanation of the language and providea rich source of real examples; summarizes some differences between ANSI CommonLisp and Common Lisp as it was originally defined in 1984; and contains aconcise description of every function, macro, and special operator in ANSICommon Lisp. The book concludes with a section of notes containingclarifications, references, and additional code. For computerprogrammers.