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Common Lisp Resources

Created: February 19, 2026

Some handy resources for getting into Common Lisp.

Books

Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel -- free online, great for beginners
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David Touretzky

References

Common Lisp HyperSpec -- the definitive language reference
The Common Lisp Cookbook -- practical recipes

Implementations

SBCL -- Steel Bank Common Lisp, what this site uses
CCL -- Clozure Common Lisp

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