Common Lisp the Language 2nd Edition

1. Introduction

Common Lisp is a new dialect of Lisp a successor to MacLisp [33 37] influenced strongly by Zetalisp [55 34] and to some extent by Scheme [46] and Interlisp [50].

• Purpose
• Notational Conventions
  • Decimal Numbers
  • Nil False and the Empty List
  • Evaluation Expansion and Equivalence
  • Errors
  • Descriptions of Functions and Other Entities
  • The Lisp Reader
  • Overview of Syntax