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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Common Lisp from FOLDOC</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'unsafe-inline' http: https:"> <meta name="verify-v1" content="siAI0ZOMn41hao0E/T76D1I2L3MtFjzE48P3ctCjRNU="> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#da532c"> <meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff"> <meta name="google-translate-customization" content="828219db36930e1e-c51d915bf2ea717c-g9b503f9a85d5b5a7-a">  <script src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-9715943-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-9715943-1'); </script>  <link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Duru+Sans%7CBelgrano%7CInconsolata%7CAlef%7CArmata" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/layout.css?2">  <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/im/apple-touch-icon.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/im/favicon-32x32.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/im/favicon-16x16.png"> <link rel="manifest" href="/im/site.webmanifest"> <link rel="mask-icon" href="/im/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://foldoc.org/Common+Lisp"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="FOLDOC" href="/rss.xml"> <link rel="search" title="FOLDOC" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="//foldoc.org/search.xml">  <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5521724329338202" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>  </head> <body> <div id="fb-root"></div> <script> (function (d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); </script> <div id="container"> <div id="left"> <a href="/"> <img src="/foldoc.gif" width="300" height="98" alt="Free On-line Dictionary of Computing" class="logo"> </a> <div id="nav"> <a href="/contents.html" class="button">Contents</a> <a href="/help.html" class="button">Help</a> <a href="/random-entry" class="button">Random</a> </div> <form action="/"> <input type="text" name="query" id="query" autofocus="autofocus"> <input type="submit" name="action" value="Search" class="button"> </form> <div id="content"> <h2>Common Lisp</h2> <p></p> <p><<i><a href="contents/language.html">language</a></i>></p> <p> A dialect of <a href="/Lisp">Lisp</a> defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the <a href="/Defence+Advanced+Research+Projects+Agency">Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency</a> (DARPA). Companies included <a href="/Symbolics">Symbolics</a>, <a href="/Lisp+Machines,+Inc.">Lisp Machines, Inc.</a>, <a href="/Digital+Equipment+Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a>, <a href="/Bell+Labs">Bell Labs</a>., <a href="/Xerox">Xerox</a>, <a href="/Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a>, <a href="/Lawrence+Livermore+Labs">Lawrence Livermore Labs</a>., <a href="/Carnegie-Mellon+University">Carnegie-Mellon University</a>, <a href="/Stanford+University">Stanford University</a>, <a href="/Yale">Yale</a>, <a href="/MIT">MIT</a> and <a href="/USC+Berkeley">USC Berkeley</a>. Common Lisp is <a href="/lexically+scoped">lexically scoped</a> by default but can be <a href="/dynamically+scoped">dynamically scoped</a>. <p></p> Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of <a href="/MacLisp">MacLisp</a>. It features <a href="/lexical+binding">lexical binding</a>, data structures using defstruct and setf, <a href="/closures">closures</a>, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an <a href="/array">array</a>. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes <a href="/CLOS">CLOS</a>, an extended LOOP <a href="/macro">macro</a>, condition system, <a href="/pretty+printing">pretty printing</a> and logical pathnames. <p></p> Implementations include <a href="/AKCL">AKCL</a>, <a href="/CCL">CCL</a>, <a href="/CLiCC">CLiCC</a>, <a href="/CLISP">CLISP</a>, <a href="/CLX">CLX</a>, <a href="/CMU+Common+Lisp">CMU Common Lisp</a>, <a href="/DCL">DCL</a>, <a href="/KCL">KCL</a>, <a href="/MCL">MCL</a> and <a href="/WCL">WCL</a>. <p></p> Mailing list: <em><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1e7d71737371703372776d6e5e7f77306d6c77307d7173"><<span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bcdfd3d1d1d3d291d0d5cfccfcddd592cfced592dfd3d1">[email protected]</span>></a></em>. <p></p> <em><a href="ftp://ftp.think.com/public/think/lisp:public-review.text">ANSI Common Lisp draft proposal</a></em>. <p></p> ["Common LISP: The Language", Guy L. Steele, Digital Press 1984, ISBN 0-932376-41-X]. <p></p> ["Common LISP: The Language, 2nd Edition", Guy L. Steele, Digital Press 1990, ISBN 1-55558-041-6]. <p></p> <p class="updated">Last updated: <a href="/new.html">1994-09-29</a></p> <p></p> <p class="vertical-space"></p><h3>Nearby terms:</h3> <p class="neighbours"> <a href="/Common+ISDN+Application+Programming+Interface">Common ISDN Application Programming Interface</a> &diams; <b><a href="/Common+Lisp">Common Lisp</a></b> &diams; <a href="/Common+LISP+in+Parallel">Common LISP in Parallel</a> </p> <p> Try this search on <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Common+Lisp">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/Common+Lisp">Wiktionary</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=define:Common+Lisp">Google</a>, <a href="https://www.onelook.com/?w=Common+Lisp">OneLook</a>. </p> <p class="vertical-space"></p> <hr> <div></div> <hr>  <div id="HCB_comment_box">Loading</div> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//www.htmlcommentbox.com/static/skins/bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap.css?v=0"> <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script language="javascript" id="hcb"> hcb_user = { PAGE: 'https://foldoc.org/Common+Lisp', comments_header: ' ', no_comments_msg: ' ', err_comment_empty: 'Your comment was not posted because it was empty!', rss: '', }; var s = document.createElement("script"); s.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript"); s.setAttribute("src", "//www.htmlcommentbox.com/jread?page=" + escape(hcb_user.PAGE).replace(/\+/g, "%2B") + "&mod=%241%24wq1rdBcg%24.0y2uzvjA2bsnhzpXVq9F." + "&opts=17374&num=10"); // No e-mail field: 16846 if (typeof s != "undefined") document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s); </script> <script> setTimeout(function () { document.getElementById('hcb_form_content').rows = 1 }, 1000); </script> <hr>  </div>  </div>  <div id="right"> <div id="google_translate_element"> <script> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } </script> <script src="https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script> </div> <p><br></p> <hr> <div id="social"> <div class="fb-like" data-href="http://foldoc.org/" data-layout="button_count" data-action="like" data-show-faces="false" data-share="true"> </div> <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-via="foldoc"> Tweet </a> <script> if (!document.getElementById('twitter-wjs')) { var fjs = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0], js = document.createElement('script'); js.id = 'twitter-wjs'; js.src = 'https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); } </script> </div> <hr> <div> <p></p> </div> <p> <a href="/rss.xml"> <img src="/orangerss.gif" width="14" height="14" alt="RSS feed of new items"> </a>   <a href="/new.html">Recent Updates</a>     |     <a href="/missing.html">Missing Terms</a> </p> <p>Updated: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:18:24 GMT</p> <p>15274 entries</p> <p><em><a href="/Free+On-line+Dictionary">Copyright Denis Howe 1985</a></em></p> </div>  </div>   <script type="text/javascript"> window._qevents = window._qevents || []; (function() { var elem = document.createElement('script'); elem.src = 'https://secure.quantserve.com/quant.js'; elem.async = true; elem.type = 'text/javascript'; var scpt = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; scpt.parentNode.insertBefore(elem, scpt); })(); window._qevents.push({ qacct: 'p-48Rosdvs3EiOc', uid: '__INSERT_EMAIL_HERE__' }); </script> <noscript> <div style="display:none;"> <img src="https//pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-48Rosdvs3EiOc.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/> </div> </noscript>  </body> </html>

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