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Common Lisp Docs

The (Un)Official Common Lisp Documentation




Lisp Tutorial

A complete Lisp Tutorial for beginners to be able to jump right into the language.

Technical Reference

Right now we are building a new Open Source, MIT Licensed, Technical Reference from the last ANSI Draft. An improved standard with many examples.

How To Guides

Follow hands-on guides on how to use Common Lisp for what you need.

Common Lisp ANSI Standard

The original Lisp Standard Draft dpANS3R+ version, now freely available. This is meant mainly for people who write Common Lisp Systems and Compilers. For the Application Programmer please see the Technical Reference.


About The Technical Reference

Complete

Complete Reference of Common Lisp all in one place. No need to search around the web for hours until you find an explanation for how the API works.

Community Driven, MIT License

Finally a joint effort where anyone can contribute. No longer are we stuck to individual vendors or people locking down documentation. Finally we can build together all the docs in one place and it can evolve even if the original contributors are no longer around!

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