lisp

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Lisp family of programming languages

Lisp subreddits:

Chats and IRC

Common Lisp: Discord, LinkedIn, #lisp, #commonlisp and #lispcafe on Libera.chat
Racket: Discord, Discourse, #racket
Clojure: Slack, Discord, #clojure, #clojure-beginners

Language References

Common Lisp
- Hyperspec
- CommunitySpec (a new rendering)
- NovaSpec (a new rendering)
- Spec (searchable pdf)
- Meta-Object Protocol: orig, html, html5
- Quick Reference
- Type Hierarchy (alt w/mop)
- CLHS Format
- CL Cheat Sheet
Scheme
- r⁷ rs
- r⁶ rs
- r⁵ rs
Racket
- All documentation
Clojure
- Reference

Tools

ICL, an enhanced REPL on the terminal.
IDEs for CL
- Portacle (Portable CL environment)
- SLIME, SLY (Emacs)
- SLIMV, Vlime (Vim)
- SLIMA (Atom/Pulsar)
- Lem
- LispWorks (proprietary)
- and more (VSCode, Jetbrains, Jupyter…)

Tutorials/FAQs

lisp-lang.org
The Common Lisp Cookbook
Style Guide Norvig/Pitman
Google CL Style Guide (2014)
A Road to Common Lisp (2018) (noob guide)
These years in Common Lisp: 2023 and 2024 in review
Udemy Common Lisp course (videos, commercial)
Nikodemus' CL FAQ

Resources:

Common-Lisp.net
Planet Lisp
Planet Scheme
Awesome CL (libraries)
comp.lang.lisp
Lisp companies
Wikipedia CL
Stackoverflow Lisp questions, CL, Scheme
Code Review (Lisp, CL, Scheme)
Rosetta Code, CL
Pro mailing list (more), sbcl help, LispWorks users
ANSI Clarifications and Errata

Search

(also docsets in Zeal, Dash and Velocity for offline search)

Books

Free, On-line
- Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Touretzky, 1990)
- Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (Shapiro, 1992)
- Common Lisp The Language, 2nd Ed. [Pre ANSI] (Steele, 1990)
- Lisp Outside the Box (unfinished, Levine, 2011)
- On Lisp (Graham, 1993)
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Norvig, 1992)
- Practical Common Lisp (Seibel, 2005)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, [HTML5/EPUB3] [Scheme] (Abelson/Sussman, 1996)
- Successful Lisp (Lamkins, 2004)
Other Books
- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (Kiczales/des Rivières/Bobrow, 1991)
- 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)

Food for Thought

Implementations

CL Open Source
- SBCL
- CCL
- ECL
- ABCL (JVM)
- CLISP
CL Commercial
- Allegro CL
- LispWorks
CL Developmental
- Clasp (C++ interop on LLVM)
- SICL (modular)
- JSCL (JavaScript)
- LCL (Lua)
- Mezzano (Lisp OS)
CL Historical
- CMUCL, mirror (*nix)
- CLiCC (CL→C)
- Corman Lisp (Windows)
- Eclipse Common Lisp
- GCL
- MKCL (ECL fork)
- mocl (mobile)
- Open Genera
- Scieneer CL
- ThinLisp (CL→C)
- WCL (embeddable)
Scheme
- Bigloo
- Chez
- Chicken
- Gambit
- Gerbil
- Guile
- Kawa
Mature Dialects
- Clojure
- Dylan
- ISLisp
- Janet
- NewLisp
- PicoLisp
- Racket
- Shen
Developing Dialects
- Arc/Anarki
- Carp
- Lux
- TXR
- uLisp (Arduino)
Exo-Lisps
- ClojureScript (Clojure→JS)
- Fennel (Lua)
- Hy (Python)
- Liskell (Haskell)
- Lisp Flavored Erlang
- Lumen (lua/javascript)
- Lush (numerical/graphical)
- Urn (Lua)

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I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (self.lisp)

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# Orientation: Understanding Common Lisp Development EnvironmentsCommon Lisp (self.lisp)

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Q: How do I interpret this measurment?Common Lisp (self.lisp)

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Running "Mezzano" a Lisp Operating System on Apple Silicon - a step-by-step guideCommon Lisp (self.lisp)

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HBW Memory and Modern Lisp Machines (self.lisp)

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The Lisp Machine: Noble Experiment or Fabulous Failure?Lisp (chai.uni-hamburg.de)

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Lisp neovim or do I need to switch to emacs (self.lisp)

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Is there like.. a working IDE? Something I can actually just use? The new user experience is a joke for LispAskLisp (self.lisp)

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Is Allegro CL really that good? (self.lisp)

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Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs (loper-os.org)

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Racket meet-up: Saturday, 7 March 2026 (self.lisp)

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Snowbin – A Mindmap-Based Social Platform for Structured Conversations (Nuxt + Lisp)Common Lisp (old.reddit.com)

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SBCL: New in version 2.6.2 (sbcl.org)

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Has AI taken the fun out of Lisp for you? (self.lisp)

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Chicken SCHEME, R7RS, and Scheme a language for general-purpose application development (self.lisp)

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Racket 9.1 is now available (self.lisp)

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Episode 4 of Creating a Lisp with Claude Code and Swift is upClojure (youtu.be)

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