Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition

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# 1. Introduction

Common Lisp is a new dialect of Lisp, a successor to MacLisp [33,37], influenced strongly by Zetalisp [55,34] and to some extent by Scheme [46] and Interlisp [50].

- Purpose
- Notational Conventions
  - Decimal Numbers
  - Nil, False, and the Empty List
  - Evaluation, Expansion, and Equivalence
  - Errors
  - Descriptions of Functions and Other Entities
  - The Lisp Reader
  - Overview of Syntax