Common LISP, Second Edition: The Language (HP Technologies) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Common LISP, Second Edition: The Language (HP Technologies) Saturday, August 15 2009.

• The defacto standard - a must-have for all LISP programmers. In this greatly expanded edition of the defacto standard, you'll learn about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication - and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by the Vice- Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition plus six completely new chapters. They cover: - CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System, with new features to support function overloading and object-oriented programming, plus complete technical specifications * Loops, a powerful control structure for multiple variables * Conditions, a generalization of the error signaling mechanism * Series and generators * Plus other subjects not part of the ANSI standards but of interest to professional programmers. Throughout, you'll find fresh examples, additional clarifications, warnings, and tips - all presented with the author's customary vigor and wit.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Common LISP, Second Edition: The Language (HP Technologies) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Guy L. Steele: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Jr. Steele, Guy L.: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Common LISP, Second Edition: The Language (HP Technologies) Friday, July 17 2009.

• Common Lisp is a new dialect of Lisp, a successor to MacLisp <33, 37>, influenced strongly by Zetalisp <55, 34> and to some extent by Scheme <46> and Interlisp <50>.