Common Lisp HyperSpec

ROAM_REFS: https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm

Welcome to the Common Lisp HyperSpec.
I hope it serves your need.

--Kent Pitman, X3J13 Project Editor

ROAM_REFS: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/hyperspec/clspec.html

Older revision from 1996 hosted by the CMU CS department.

• Common Lisp HyperSpec (TM)

Common Lisp became an official ANSI Standard on December 8, 1994: ANSI X3.226:1994 American National Standard for Programming Language Common LISP (X3J13). Copies of the ANSI/X3.226 standard, which is nearly 1,100 pages long, may be purchased from the American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. For more information, visit the ANSI home page at http://www.ansi.org/.

A web version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard is not available. The official ANSI standard is available only in hardcopy form.

However, Kent Pitman of Harlequin, Inc. has written an HTML document that is derived (with permission from ANSI and X3) from the ANSI Common Lisp standard (X3.226) and related design documents. As Project Editor of X3J13 Kent Pitman managed the completion of the document which became the ANSI Common Lisp Standard.

The Common Lisp HyperSpec (TM) is not a definitive reference, but is much more practical for most casual browsing. It is available for online browsing from Harlequin or the CMU AI Repository.

Subject to some legal restrictions, you can download a copy for your own use and get much better performance. The gzipped tar file is just a little over 2MB, and unpacks into a set of about 2,300 files that is just a little over 15MB and contains approximately 105,000 links. The Common Lisp HyperSpec (TM) is Copyright © 1996 The Harlequin Group Limited. All rights reserved.

ROAM_REFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_HyperSpec

The Common Lisp HyperSpec is a technical standard document written in the hypertext format Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). It is not the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Common Lisp standard, but is based on it, with permission from ANSI and the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS, X3). Originally developed by Kent Pitman at Harlequin, it is now copyrighted by LispWorks Ltd. It is approximately 15 megabytes (MB) of data in 2,300 files which contain approximately 105,000 hyperlinks.

The HyperSpec is used by many Common Lisp development environments (examples: LispWorks, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs (SLIME) for looking up reference information on the constructs of ANSI Common Lisp. The HyperSpec is also available for download.

Before the ANSI Common Lisp standard, the book Common Lisp the Language had been used as a Common Lisp standard reference.

Allegro Common Lisp has its own hypertext version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.