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{{Short description|1984 reference book by Guy Steele}}

'''''Common Lisp the Language''''' is a [[book]] by [[Guy L. Steele]] about [[Common Lisp]].

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The first edition (Digital Press, 1984; ISBN 0-932376-41-X; 465 pages) served as the basis for the [[ANSI Common Lisp standard]]. The second edition (Digital Press, 1990; ISBN 1-55558-041-6; 1029 pages) reflected the then-current status of the standardization process and documented important new features such as [[CLOS]], the <tt>loop</tt> macro, conditions, series and generators.

'''''Common Lisp the Language''''' is a [[reference book]] by [[Guy L. Steele about a set of [[technical standard]]s aboutand [[programming language]]s named [[Common Lisp]].

==History==

===Before standardizing===

The first edition (Digital Press, 1984; {{ISBN|0-932376-41-X}}; 465 pages) was written by [[Guy L. Steele Jr.]], [[Scott Fahlman|Scott E. Fahlman]], [[Richard P. Gabriel]], [[David A. Moon]], and [[Daniel Weinreb|Daniel L. Weinreb]]. It served as the basis for the Common Lisp technical standard by the [[American National Standards Institute]] (ANSI), and is thus termed ANSI Common Lisp.

===During standardizing===

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===After standardizing===

The ANSI Common Lisp standard was published in 1994 and differs from the language [[Dialect (computing)|dialects]] described in ''Common Lisp the Language'' (1984) and ''Common Lisp the Language, Second Edition'' (1990). Substantive additions and deletions were made between the time of the Second Edition and the final version of ANSI Common Lisp. Also, series and generators were discussed in appendix matter of the Second Edition but were not a part of any working draft nor the final version of ANSI Common Lisp.

Although ANSI Common Lisp and the language dialects described by the two editions of ''Common Lisp the Language'' differ, the ANSI Common Lisp specification indirectly acknowledges the practical importance of ''Common Lisp the Language'' (first and second edition) by explicitly suggesting the [[reserved word]]s (keywords) <code>:cltl1</code> and <code>:cltl2</code> for potential inclusion on the <code>*features*</code> list, allowing conditionals to be added to code that must interoperate between ANSI Common Lisp and those other dialects.

==See also==

* [[Common Lisp HyperSpec]] (hypertext version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard)

==External links==

* [httphttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition] ProvidesOnline [[LaTeXHTML]] sourcesversion. (Also provides andseveral downloadable [[HTML]]formats, andincluding [[PostscriptLaTeX]] versionssources.)

** [[Mirror website|Mirror sites]] (in case of standard site being offline)

** Mirror sites ([http://cltl2.lisp.se/cltl/cltl2.html mirror] [http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/cltl2.html mirror]) may also be handy since the standard site has had offline content for a considerable time.

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