LISP Workshop for Musicians #0

Bibliography: LISP texts.

The Common LISP Bible: Steele, Guy. Common LISP (second edition). Prentice Hall, 1990.
Koschmann, Timothy D. The Common LISP Companion. John Willey & Sons, 1990.
Norvig, Peter. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. Case Studies in Common Lisp. Morgan Kaufman, 1994.
Others...

1960 - Lisp 1.5 by John McCarthy (now professor at Stanford) at MIT.
mid 1970's - MacLISP by MIT AI Lab (East Coast LISP); InterLISP by Xerox PARC (West Coast LISP)
late 1970's - Scheme (Lisp + ALGOL) by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman at MIT.
1979 - Portable Standard LISP (PSL) by University of Utah.
1982 - Franz Lisp and New Implementation of Lisp (NIL)
1983 - Zetalisp by MIT.
1984 - Common LISP.
Present - Scheme and Common LISP.

Driven almost entirely by functions: chains of functions or functions of functions.
Equivalence of programs and data.
Tons of built-in functions and macros.
High level language: takes care of implementation details that you have to deal with in declarative languages like C or Pascal.
Interactive programming and debugging: "exploratory programming" (hacking).
Interpreted code.
Highly recursive data structures (list, trees, etc.) and algorithms.
Not declared and typed variables.
Automatic memory allocation and deallocation.
Artificial Intelligence programming language.
Common LISP applications: vision, programming language design, natural language, planning, computer-aided design (CAD), theorem proving, symbolic algebra, text editors (EMACS) and music! (CLM, CM, CMN, etc).

Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL). Version 3.9 in PPC, and version 2.0.1 in other Macs.
Allegro Common Lisp (ACL). Version 3.2 for NeXT Black Hardware (use /LocalApps/Lisp.app).
Allegro Common Lisp (ACL). Version 4.? for SGI (not available).
GNU Common Lisp (gcl). Version 1.1 for NeXT White Hardware (use /Lisp/next-i386/gcl/cm/cm).

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