Welcome to the Lisp Programmer's Guildhall
This page serves as a central repository of information about programming in Lisp.
There are several courses here at Tech that utilize Lisp, but they're primary focus
is not teaching Lisp.
Herein lies pragamtic and supplementary information about Lisp and the various Lisp
Programming Environments used on campus. The information here will not teach you
Lisp, but should help you learn how to use Lisp more effectively.
The material here is hopefully helpful to all but the most wizardly of Lisp
Hackers. Contributions by Wizards are always welcome. Some entries are marked by a
code. Unmarked entries are usually targeted for folks between the first two levels.
Difficulty levels
[N] -- Novice Level. ( e.g. CS 2360 in the first few weeks of the class)
[A] -- Apprentice Level ( e.g. a graduate of CS 2360 )
[J] -- Journeyman Level ( e.g. have hacked several significant lisp programs )
[W] -- Wizard Level ( e.g. rewrite vendor supplied function to make them faster)
Table of Contents:
An explanation of why this corner of the WWW exists and who the target audience is and how
this all got started. Herein lies a guide by class ( e.g. 2360) about what's interesting
here and what's should be steared clear of. Also how you can make contributions for those
Wizards out there with spare time on their hands.
A reverse choronological order of significant new entries into the respository.
Information about and tips on the use of several Lisp
environments ( MCL,LCL,and LispWorks ), Emacs, RCS
The source code to various tools that might prove useful. And pointers
off to much bigger code repositories.
All you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask about Lisp. Plus, Steele
online. Plus some book recomendations/reviews/suggestions.
Some "Philosophical" discussions of Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up vs. Incremental
Development of code.
The word as laid down in previous instantiations of several classes.
And past incarnations of Kurt's Lecture Notes.
Some discussion of proper lisp style. Or at least one viewpoint on it.
Last modified: by Lyman S. Taylor(lyman@cc.gatech.edu)
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