Practical Common LISP

Introduction: Why Lisp? . - Lather, Rinse, Repeat: A Tour of the REPL. - Practical: A Simple Database. - Syntax and Semantics. - Functions. - Variables. - Macros: Standard Control Constructs. - Macros: Defining Your Own. - Practical: Building a Unit Test Framework. - Numbers, Characters, and Strings. - Collections. - They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing. - Beyond Lists: Other Uses for Cons Cells. - Files and File I/O. - Practical: A Portable Pathname Library. - Object Reorientation: Generic Functions. - Object Reorientation: Classes. - A Few FORMAT Recipes. - Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts. - The Special Operators. - Programming in the Large: Packages and Symbols. - LOOP for Black Belts. - Practical: A Spam Filter. - Practical: Parsing Binary Files. - Practical: An ID3 Parser. - Practical: Web Programming with AllegroServe. - Practical: An MP3 Database. - Practical: A Shoutcast Server. - Practical: An MP3 Browser. - Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Interpreter. - Practical: An HTML Generation Library, the Compiler. - Conclusion: What s Next? .