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