The Common Lisp Cookbook

Contributors: Marco Antoniotti, Zach Beane, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Frederic Brunel, Jeff Caldwell, Bill Clementson, Martin Cracauer, Gerald Doussot, Paul Foley, Jörg-Cyril Höhle, Nick Levine, Lieven Marchand, Drew McDermott, Kalman Reti, Alberto Riva, Rudi Schlatte, Paul Tarvydas, Kenny Tilton, Reini Urban, Matthieu Villeneuve, Edi Weitz.

First Published: June 2003
Free License: The Common Lisp Cookbook Project License

This book was suggested by Percy Tiglao

Book Description:

The Common Lisp Cookbook is a thorough collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Common Lisp, built by a collaborative project. The purpose is to provide readers with quick and easy-to-find references for day-to-day programming in Common Lisp.

The birth of this collaboration is mainly credited to dj_special_ed who posted this message on comp.lang.lisp:


Readers with post-introductory skill on Common Lisp should find a good companion in this book.

Covered Topics:

This cookbook provides dozens of separate "recipes," including:

- strings
- dates and times
- hash tables
- pattern matching / regular expressions
- functions
- input/output
- files and directories
- packages
- macros and backquote
- CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System)
- sockets
- interfacing with your OS
- foreign function interfaces
- threads
- defining systems
- setting up an IDE with Emacs on Windows or Mac OS X
- using Emacs as a Lisp IDE
- using the Win32 API

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