r/Common_Lisp

4.3K archived posts · Aug 2008 – Sep 2026

Common Lisp

r/Common_Lisp

Common Lisp is one of the main Lisp dialects. Developed from 1981 onwards it is still in use today. Major Common Lisp implementations are SBCL, ECL, ABCL, Allegro CL, LispWorks. This subreddit is for Common Lisp developers and its topic is: Software development with Common Lisp.

Created May 27, 2008

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A subreddit for Common Lisp.

Other Common Lisp related subreddits:

/r/sbcl
/r/lisp
/r/lisp_ja (Japanese)

Influenced:

/r/dylanlang
/r/Julia

Events

Lisp Meetings Calendar
12th European Lisp Symposium, 1-2 April 2019, Genova, Italy
11th European Lisp Symposium, 16-17 April 2018, Centro Cultural Cortijo de Miraflores, Marbella, Spain
10th European Lisp Symposium, 3-4 April 2017, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
9th European Lisp Symposium, 9-10 May 2016, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
International Lisp Conference, August 14-17, 2014, Montreal, Canada

Common Lisp Language References

Common Lisp Hyperspec
Common Lisp Spec (PDF)
Common Lisp Spec Clarifications & Errata
Common Lisp Object System Meta-Object Protocol
Common Lisp Quick Reference

Documentation Search

Quickref
Quickdocs Library Search
L1sp redirect service

Tools

Quicklisp (Libraries)
SLIME (GNU Emacs IDE for Common Lisp)

Tutorials/FAQ/Help

articulate-common-lisp, how to write Common Lisp today
Steve Losh: A Road to Common Lisp
Zach Beane: Where to get help with Common Lisp
Lisp Style Guide Norvig/Pitman (PDF)
Nikodemus' CL FAQ

Useful Lisp resources:

Planet Lisp
LispForum
Cliki
Common-Lisp.net
lisp-lang.org
comp.lang.lisp
Common Lisp Professionals Mailing List
Lisp Jobs
Common Lisp, Wikipedia
Association of Lisp Users
Common Lisp questions Stackoverflow
Rosetta Code, Common Lisp
#lisp Twitter
ECL Quarterly
Freenode IRC logs #lisp

History

Bibliography
CMU Common Lisp Repository
Computer History Museum
Lisp FAQ for comp.lang.lisp
Mailing lists

Free Lisp Books / Papers

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
Practical Common Lisp
On Lisp
Common Lisp The Language, 2nd Edition (Pre ANSI Common Lisp)
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach
The Common Lisp Cookbook

Other Books / Papers

ANSI Common Lisp
The Common Lisp Condition System
Common Lisp Recipes
Land of Lisp
Let over Lambda
Lisp, 3rd Edition
Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

Common Lisp implementations (Open Source/Free Software)

ABCL (for JVM)
CCL
CLISP , CLISP@Gitlab
CMUCL
ECL
GCL
SBCL

Common Lisp implementations (Commercial/Proprietary)

Allegro CL
LispWorks
mocl for OSX, iOS and Android
Open Genera
Scieneer CL

Various other Common Lisp Implementations

Butterfly Common Lisp (written in Scheme)
CLASP (ECL fork for llvm)
Codemist Common Lisp
Corman Lisp (MS-Windows)
Eclipse Common Lisp
JSCL (Javascript)
Mezzano (Lisp OS)
MKCL (ECL fork)
Parenscript (CL to Javascript)
SICL (modular)
Thinlisp
WCL (embeddable)
Xerox Common Lisp

Other communities

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