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<html><head><title>Download</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc.png"> </head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" background="https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/essays-4.gif" text="#000000" link="#000099" vlink="#464646"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top"><td><map name=1717c64a02ebc1db><area shape=rect coords="0,0,67,21" href="index.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,21,67,42" href="articles.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,42,67,63" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596006624"><area shape=rect coords="0,63,67,84" href="books.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,84,67,105" href="http://ycombinator.com"><area shape=rect coords="0,105,67,126" href="arc.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,126,67,147" href="bel.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,147,67,168" href="lisp.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,168,67,189" href="antispam.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,189,67,210" href="kedrosky.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,210,67,231" href="faq.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,231,67,252" href="raq.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,252,67,273" href="quo.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,273,67,294" href="rss.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,294,67,315" href="bio.html"><area shape=rect coords="0,315,67,336" href="https://twitter.com/paulg"><area shape=rect coords="0,336,67,357" href="https://mas.to/@paulg"></map><img src="https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/essays-5.gif" width="69" height="357" usemap=#1717c64a02ebc1db border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" ismap /></td><td><img src="https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ca/Img/trans_1x1.gif" height="1" width="26" border="0" /></td><td><a href="index.html"><img src="https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/essays-6.gif" width="410" height="45" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /></a><br /><br /><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="435"><tr valign="top"><td width="435"><img src="https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/paulgraham/download-2.gif" width="146" height="18" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" alt="Download <i>On Lisp</i>" /><br /><br /><font size="2" face="verdana">With thanks to Alan Apt of Prentice Hall for giving me back the copyright and Chip Coldwell for reproducing it from the original tex files, here finally is a digital version of <a href="onlisp.html">On Lisp</a>.<br /><br />[<a href="https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.ps.Z?t=1688221954&">600K Compressed Postscript File</a>]<br /><br />[<a href="https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.ps?t=1688221954&">1412K Postscript File</a>]<br /><br />[<a href="https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf?t=1688221954&">1030K PDF File</a>]<br /><br />This is identical to the printed version, except that nine diagrams are missing. 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