Jeff's Lisp Page

Jeff's Lisp page

This page contains pointers to a number of interesting, Lisp-related items. Some tell you about Lisp; others are papers, book reviews, programs, net articles, and so on, from a variety of sources.

This is still rather preliminary, since I also have work (and other things) to do. ...

My stuff

I've written a short HTML introduction to CLOS that tells enough for someone who already knows Common Lisp to start using CLOS.
I've also written a list of Common Lisp pitfalls.
I have a port of Franz Lisp for 386-type PCs running BSD.
Global variables in Common Lisp are the outermost special (dynamic) variables, not the outermost lexical (static) variables. This is a confusing and sometimes controversial issue on which I've collected some interesting items.
Here is an example Syllogism program (soon to be replaced by the CGI version).

Other stuff

Lisp implementations can be very small, for instance this obfuscated lisp.
The CMU AI Repository is full of useful stuff.
Another useful source is the The Association of Lisp Users. Or go direct to the table version.
Henry Baker has an archive of interesting papers, including the famed HAKMEM.
There are some excellent papers about garbage collection at the University of Texas. If you want to know more about GC than any of your friends, read bigsurv.ps, a survey of "Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" by Paul Wilson .
Common Lisp: the Language is online at several mirror sites. Here are some: CMU (US), Open University (UK)
Comp.lang.lisp's FAQ answers questions about Common Lisp programming pitfalls, Lisp implementations, and so on.
Guy Steele and Dick Gabriel have written an interesting, although somewhat contentious, paper on the Evolution of Lisp.
Gabriel's famous "worse is better" argument can be found in this paper.
Barry Margolin's review of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol.
An ISO moment.
The original hacker's dictionary (aka the jargon file).
Common Lisp eval in Common Lisp from 1982.
Scheme is a popular "uncommon" Lisp.
I have some Scheme-related items on a separate page.
Another "uncommon" Lisp is EuLisp.

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