Top "Common-lisp" questions

Common Lisp is a standardized version of the Lisp programming language intended for production-strength power.

Difference between `set`, `setq`, and `setf` in Common Lisp?

What is the difference between "set", "setq", and "setf" in Common Lisp?

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What's the best way to learn LISP?

I have been programming in Python, PHP, Java and C for a couple or years now, and I just finished …

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Check if item is in a list (Lisp)

What's a simple way to check if an item is in a list? Something like (in item list) might return …

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Lisp commenting convention

What is the Lisp convention about how many semicolons to use for different kinds of comments (and what the level …

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Using Vim for Lisp development

I've been using Lisp on and off for a while but I'm starting to get more serious about doing some "…

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Clojure vs other Lisps

The intent of my question is not to start a flame war, but rather to determine in what circumstances each …

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Common Lisp's equivalent of \r inside the format function?

Basically, I'd like to do the following, only using Common Lisp instead of Python: print("Hello world.\r\n") I …

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What's the difference between eq, eql, equal and equalp, in Common Lisp?

What's the difference between eq, eql, equal and equalp, in Common Lisp? I understand that some of them check types, …

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What are the differences between Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Common Lisp?

I know they are dialects of the same family of language called lisp, but what exactly are the differences? Could …

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Best Common Lisp IDE

I've used Slime within Emacs as my primary development environment for Common Lisp (or Aquamacs on OS X), but are …

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