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Common Lisp, or ANSI Common Lisp, is a standardized version of the Lisp programming language intended for production-strength power and libraries.

ANSI Common Lisp, the programmable programming language.

We have a Wikipedia page on Common Lisp, an online version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard and a list of recommended Common Lisp implementations. Many Lisp specific mailing lists are archived at Gmane.

Popular Common Lisp implementations

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL), a high performance Common Lisp compiler
CLISP, a portable implementation that compiles to bytecode
Armed Bear Common Lisp, an implementation on top of JVM
Clozure CL

Which of these old criticisms of common lisp still apply today?

In A Critique of Common Lisp written by Rodney A. Brooks and Richard P. Gabriel from Stanford in 1984, some design decisions retained by the normalizing committee of Common Lisp are discussed. While most of the discussion remains valid, there are…

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asked Nov 26 '13 at 12:08

user40989

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Should I introduce a data format with limited expressivity or use the full expressiveness of lisp?

I'm developing a computer game. It is a single person hobby project. I will implement it in common-lisp. As proof of concept I'm trying to procedurally generate a scene by randomly selecting entries from several tables. The scene should…

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asked Oct 04 '18 at 19:15

Kasper van den Berg

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Which of these old criticisms of common lisp still apply today?

Should I introduce a data format with limited expressivity or use the full expressiveness of lisp?