The Calm and Collected Lisper

A Curated Collection of Lisp-Related Stuff

Lovingly (and Slowly!) Curated by Jeff Shrager (jshrager@stanford.edu)

Photo by Carsten Ullrich

Lisp is hard to define but I know it when I see it! (Apologies to Justice Potter Stewart)

For the present purpose, "Lisp" means any Lisp-like language. As suggested by the paraphrase of Potter Stewarts quip about porn, I'm not focused only on Common Lisp, but casting more broadly to include the many "pre-Common" Lisps (Lisp 1.5, BBN Lisp, MacLisp, InterLisp, PLisp) and Common Lisps (Allegro, SBLC, etc)m and also count a number of "near-Lisps", such as Scheme, Clojure, T, and Logo. All of these tend to be homoiconic, but that does not seem to me to be all there is to being a Lisp. Anyway, enjoy, and definitely send me additional pointers or corrections. -- Jeff

General Commentaries

Major Lisp-Influenced Languages (Quasi-Lisps)

General Books

Peter Seibel (2005) Practical Common Lisp

Scholarly (Or Not) Commentaries on Specific Features of Various Lisps

BackQuote (QuasiQuote)
- Alan Bawden (~1999) Quasiquotation in Lisp

Various Obscure and/or Historical Lisp Implementations (or descriptions thereof):

CljPerl - A lisp on perl (FWIW -- js)
A Running Interlisp listener (seems to be offline a lot, or very slow)

Historical Notes:

The hidden origins of lisp. By Duncan McGreggor

Other Lisp-Related Collections:

Acknowledgements: Thanks to Mike Travers, Jesus, and The Holy Ghost for their helpful additions and organizational suggestions.