A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

Related communities

• Clojure (lemmy.ml)
• Clojure (programming.dev)
• Lisp (programming.dev)
• Scheme (lemmy.ml)
• Scheme (programming.dev)
• Guix (lemmy.ml)
• Guix (infosec.pub)
• Emacs (lemmy.ml)

Language references

• Common Lisp
  • Hyperspec
  • CommunitySpec (a new rendering)
  • NovaSpec (a new rendering)
  • Spec (as searchable pdf)
  • Meta-Object Protocol: alu-original, vanilla-html, HTML5-mobile
  • Quick Reference
  • Type Hierarchy, (alt w/mop)
  • Format summary
  • Cheat Sheet
• Scheme
  • r7 rs
  • r6 rs
  • r5 rs mirror
• Racket
  • Reference
  • All documentation
• Clojure
  • Reference

Tools

• IDEs for CL
  • Plain Common Lisp (CL environment for Windows)
  • SLIME, SLY (Emacs)
  • SLIMV, Vlime (Vim)
  • Slima (Atom/Pulsar)
  • SLT (Jetbrains)
  • Alive (VScode)
  • Lem
  • and more (Sublime, Jupyter...)
• Quicklisp (CL Library manager), Qlot (project-local library manager)
• ocicl (new library manager)
• Roswell (CL Environment Setup Utility)

Tutorials/FAQS

• lisp-lang.org
• The Common Lisp Cookbook
• Style Guide Norvig/Pitman
• Nikodemus' CL FAQ
• Google CL Style Guide (2014)
• A Road to Common Lisp (2018) (noob guide)
• Udemy Common Lisp course (videos, commercial)
• State of the CL Ecosystem 2022 · 2020 · 2015
• Where to get help with Common Lisp

Useful Lisp resources

• Common-Lisp.net
• Awesome CL (CL libraries)
• Planet Lisp
• Planet Scheme
• comp.lang.lisp
• CL Professionals Mailing List
• Lisp companies
• Wikipedia CL
• Stackoverflow Lisp questions, CL, Scheme
• Code Review (Lisp, CL, Scheme)
• Rosetta Code, CL
• Mailing Lists, more
• ANSI Clarifications and Errata

Search

• Quickref Library
• L1sp redirect
• Quickdocs Library

Videos

Common Lisp

• Common Lisp videos

Clojure

• Clojure TV

Racket

• Racketlang's playlist

Scheme

• MIT's SICP lectures

Books

• Free, Complete, On-line, Authorized
  • Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Touretzky, 1990)
  • Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (Shapiro, 1992)
  • The Common Lisp Cookbook / Original 2007
  • Common Lisp The Language, 2nd Edition [Pre ANSI] (Steele, 1990)
  • How to Design Programs (Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi)
  • Lisp Outside the Box (unfinished, Levine, 2011)
  • On Lisp (Graham, 1993)
  • Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Norving, 1992)
  • Practical Common Lisp (Seibel, 2005)
  • Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (Scheme) (Shriram Krishnamurthi, 2007-2020)
  • The Scheme Programming Language (Scheme) (R. Kent Dybvig, 2009)
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, HTML5/EPUB3 (Scheme) (Abelson/Sussman, 1996)
• Other Books
  • 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)
  • The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (Kiczales/des Rivières/Bobrow, 1991)
  • Essential LISP (Anderson/Reiser/Corbett, 1986)

Food for thought

• An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
• Lambda the Ultimate
• Erik Naggum comp.lang.lisp archive
• Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp

Implementations

• CL Open Source
  • SBCL
  • CCL
  • ECL (embeddable)
  • ABCL (for JVM)
  • CLISP
  • CMUCL, mirror (*nix)
  • GCL
• CL Commercial
  • Allegro CL
  • LispWorks multiplatform, iOS and Android
• CL Developmental
  • CLASP (C++ interop on LLVM)
  • JSCL (javascript)
  • Mezzano (Lisp OS)
  • SICL (Modular)
  • alisp (interpreter, C89)
  • LCL (lua)
• CL Historical
  • mocl for OSX, iOS and Android
  • Open Genera
  • Scieneer CL
  • CLiCC (CL→C)
  • Corman Lisp (MS-Windows)
  • Eclipse Common Lisp
  • MKCL (fork of ECL)
  • ThinLisp (CL→C)
  • WCL (embeddable)
• Scheme TODO

Events

• European Lisp Symposium
• LispNYC
• Lisp Ireland
• Racket Con