Symbolics Lisp Machines I used at Brown, 1985 - 1990.

Notes on Common Lisp

This page contains snippets of information about Common Lisp that I have found helpful. There are at least three sources of information that no Lisper should be without:

1. The CLiki Common Lisp Wiki site.
2. Planet Lisp, the feed that aggregates a whole bunch of lisp-related blogs.
3. The #lisp irc channel.

Local Resources

Here are some locally-hosted resources that are for some reason hard to get elsewhere.

With much effort, and some help, I have managed to translate some of the Garnet documents into HTML for easier reading.

• Garnet Tour
• Garnet Tutorial

You may retrieve an ASDF-installable system for Floyd-Warshall all-pairs shortest-path computations. This is a very preliminary version, and my first asdf-installable system, so use with caution! Package is here, and there's also a GPG signature file.

MK-DEFSYSTEM

Note: I will probably delete this documentation file sometime in the near future. The momentum seems to be with ASDF, rather than mk-defsystem, and I don't have the energy to keep up with both of them. [2006/01/23:rpg]

MK-DEFSYSTEM is a portable system-definition utility. Some would call it "venerable," and some would call it "old and crufty." A modern alternative is ASDF, which is all spiffy and CLOS-based, but somehow never seems to have the features I want enough to get me to give up MK-DEFSYSTEM.

Here are some items connected to MK-DEFSYSTEM.

• MK-DEFSYSTEM documentation. The last time I checked, the documentation that came with the distribution was badly out of date, and not getting patched much. So I made some changes, and here's the result.
• Henrik Motakef's "Fight the System" tutorial. Motakef's web site seems to have vanished, so I extracted this copy from the Wayback machine and offer it without on a warranty-free basis. Sadly, I don't have the docbook source.