Everything about Common Lisp

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Common LispA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Using Metaprogramming Tools of the Common Lisp Language for the Development of Emulator SystemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Algorithms in C++The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Common Lisp Object System specificationCited 194 times
5. Go sideways: Scope (computer programming)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Emacs LispA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Common Lisp Object System specification

  Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMichiel, Richard P. Gabriel · 1988 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 194 citations

• Common Music: A Music Composition Language in Common Lisp and CLOS

  Heinrich Taube · 1991 · Computer Music Journal · 24 citations

• A common LISP hypermedia server

  J.C. Mallery · 1994 · Computer Networks and ISDN Systems · 20 citations

• TICL—A type inference system for Common Lisp

  Kwan‐Liu Ma, Robert R. Kessler · 1990 · Software: Practice and Experience · 11 citations

• A verified Common Lisp implementation of Buchberger’s algorithm in ACL2

  Inmaculada Medina-Bulo, Francisco Palomo-Lozano, José-Luis Ruiz-Reina · 2010 · Journal of Symbolic Computation · 10 citations

• Fast floating-point processing in Common Lisp

  Richard J. Fateman, Kevin A. Broughan, Diane K. Willcock · 1995 · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software · 7 citations

• Preliminary report on a practical type inference system for common Lisp

  Randall D. Beer · 1987 · ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers · 7 citations

• Real-time programming in Common Lisp

  James R. Allard, Lowell B. Hawkinson · 1991 · Communications of the ACM · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Using Metaprogramming Tools of the Common Lisp Language for the Development of Emulator Systems

  А. А. Chaplygin · 2024 · Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: IT Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Medical Equipment Engineering · 2 citations

• МЕТОДИ І МОДЕЛІ ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЇ РОЗПОДІЛУ ТЕМПЕРАТУРНИХ ПОЛІВ ГАЗОТУРБІННИХ КАМЕР ЗГОРЯННЯ З ВИКОРИСТАННЯМ СЕРЕДОВИЩА COMMON LISP

  Юлія КАЗИМИРЕНКО, Ігор МІХЕЛЄВ, Микола МАТВЄЄВ · 2022 · INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY · 1 citations

• Modeling and implementation of Common LISP functional language compiler

  A. A. Chaplygin · 2025 · Proceedings of the Southwest State University · 0 citations

• СИСТЕМАТИЗАЦІЯ ТА ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЯ ЕКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНИХ ВИПРОБУВАНЬ ГАЗОТУРБІННИХ КАМЕР ЗГОРЯННЯ У СЕРЕДОВИЩІ COMMON LISP

  Юлія КАЗИМИРЕНКО, Ігор МИХЕЛЄВ, Микола МАТВЄЄВ · 2023 · INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Algorithms in C++Robert Sedgewick · 1990
• Paradigms of Artificial IntelligencePeter Norvig · 1991
• Practical Common LispPeter Seibel · 2005
• COMMON LISPGuy L. Steele Jr. · 1984
• Common LispDavid S. Touretzky · 1989
• Land of LispConrad Barski · 2010
• Common LispWendy L. Milner · 1987
• Object-Oriented ProgrammingAndreas Paepcke · 1993

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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