FLP

Functional and logical programming course

Content

1. What is Lisp?
2. Getting started
3. Hello world

What is Lisp?

• Lisp - Wiki
• Common Lisp - Wiki
• Practical Common Lisp - Quick start book
• Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition - More complex book, kind of documentation

Getting started

Installing interpreter

Ubuntu

There are variety of compilers and interpreters for Lisp and Common Lisp, the simplest way to install a compiler is getting it with apt:

sudo apt install clisp

• For running interpreter run clisp command.
• man clisp or clisp -h for help

Windows

Go to SourceForge and download clisp-X.XX-win32-mingw-big.zip for example clisp-2.49-win32-mingw-big.zip. Direct downloading link for v2.49 Unpack the zip-archive, and add the folder to the system path.

• For running interpreter run clisp command.
• clisp -h for help

Mac OS/ OS X

You can install Common Lisp interpreter via Homebrew:

brew install clisp

Hello world

(Format t "Hello, world!")