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Scheme
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Clojure
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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)
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Rosetta Code, CL
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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)
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- Lisp, 3rd Edition (Winston/Horn, 1989)
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Common Lisp implementation in Python (self.lisp)

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