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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.

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In Common Lisp, we have to use the let form to declare a new lexically-scoped variable. This means that the code either looks like that written in C89 (all variables declared on top of scope), or ...
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The Common Lisp Cookbook discusses how to use ftype to declare the inputs and outputs of functions. In compilers with a lot of type inferencing like SBCL, this would seem to offer a lot of support ...
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C++ only supports single dynamic dispatch methods. Indeed, the following program: #include <iostream> struct Shape { virtual void overlap(Shape* y) { std::cout << "Shape, Shape\n&...
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I've made a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game in Common Lisp using the Ltk library. One of the things I wanted to do was to support CPU vs CPU, human vs human, human vs CPU, and CPU vs human. Also, possibly ...
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Generally in procedural/imperative languages, it's best practice to place variable declarations as close to usage as possible. This seems a little hazy in lisp, considering more code is used if there ...
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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 ...
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I have a hierarchy of functions, many functions are called by a single function. There are three options: Use defun: i.e. all functions are global even the ones that are only intended for internal ...
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In a Lisp dialect, I've implemented ANSI-CL-like support for printing objects such that their circular and shared structure is encoded. This is enabled by the special variable *print-circle*. ...
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In which order should code in a single lisp file be organised? Is there any common style guideline that allows other lisp programmers to easily understand code? Googling for lisp style guideline ...
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I am studying different language games and trying to implement them in Common Lisp. Currently, I am studying a game which studies the relation between forms and meanings. An agent needs to store the ...
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Given: I want to practice proper test-first, continuous delivery-style software development in Common Lisp environment. Problem: How each red-green-refactor iteration of the process should look like?...
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I'm learning Scheme from the SICP and I'm getting the impression that a big part of what makes Scheme and, even more so, LISP special is the macro system. But, since macros are expanded at compile-...
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What's the difference between using (values …) versus (list …) (or literally '(one two three …)) to return multiple values from a lambda (or other implicit progn)? Does it create some special glue to ...
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What is the main method for reclaiming the memory in LISP? Does LISP really need garbage collection? Would not reference counts suffice? I just wanted to know whether reference counts are enough or ...
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The Common Lisp spec states that nil is the name of the empty type, but I've never found any situation in Common Lisp where I felt like the empty type was useful/necessary. Is it there just for ...
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Haskell has a notion of “generic functions” that has some apparent similarity with common lisp—having neither experience with Haskell nor with common lisp, I might be very approximative here. This ...
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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 ...
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I'm writing a simple chess engine in LISP. I actually know how the engine decide the move, it evaluates and reads some opening books. But that's not what i mean. This is my design. 57 58 59 60 61 62 ...
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I have been asked to automate the operation of a Windows (WinForms) application, performing some fairly complicated statistical analysis along the way. My first thought was the usual suspects: .NET, ...
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I have never written software in Common Lisp, but in Scheme and Clojure as well as C++ and Python. Yet I have had a look at the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) in Common Lisp and Dylan. Now when ...
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I've been learning both Common Lisp and Racket, and one thing that I consistently hear is that Racket is a much "smaller" language than Common Lisp. I was wondering what this really meant. As far as I ...
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I was reading this article: A Critique of Common Lisp and finding it hard to make out the precise definition of "stock-hardware machine" and its difference with "micro-coded" machines. I tried to ...
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I see now that Racket has types. At first glance it seems to be almost identical to Haskell typing. But is Lisp's CLOS covering some of the space Haskell types cover? Creating a very strict Haskell ...
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I came across this about CLISP: *"it all-but-forces your code to be released as GPL" here, when looking for a good Common Lisp implementation. How can a language force a license on your code? Is this ...
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I'm learning Common Lisp, mostly as a "mind gym" hobby thing, but I want to end up with a set of skills that would also be usable "in real life", because when you learn a language you also accumulate ...
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There seems to be an immediate problem with starting to develop in Common Lisp: choosing an implementation. What should one take into account, and how much weight should it bear when considering a CL ...
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I try to teach myself a new programming language in regular intervals of time. Recently, I've read how Lisp and its dialects are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from languages like C/C++, ...
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