< language > A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics , Lisp Machines, Inc. , Digital Equipment Corporation , Bell Labs ., Xerox , Hewlett-Packard , Lawrence Livermore Labs ., Carnegie-Mellon University , Stanford University , Yale , MIT and USC Berkeley . Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped .
Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp . It features lexical binding , data structures using defstruct and setf, closures , multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array . It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS , an extended LOOP macro , condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames.
Implementations include AKCL , CCL , CLiCC , CLISP , CLX , CMU Common Lisp , DCL , KCL , MCL and WCL .
Mailing list: common-lisp@ai.sri.com .
ANSI Common Lisp draft proposal .
["Common LISP: The Language", Guy L. Steele, Digital Press 1984, ISBN 0-932376-41-X].
["Common LISP: The Language, 2nd Edition", Guy L. Steele, Digital Press 1990, ISBN 1-55558-041-6].
(1994-09-29)