The Common Lisp Cookbook

For a more modern and up to date guide, Edi Weitz's "Common Lisp Recipes" is a great reference: https://www.amazon.com/Common-Lisp-Recipes-Problem-Solution-... The more I use Common Lisp, the more disappointed I am that it hasn't become more popular. It really is higher level than Python, Ruby, or Perl but with nearly the performance of C and C++.

Hi! I'm one of the (less active) maintainers. Four years ago I migrated the CL cookbook from sourceforge where it'd been gently resting for quite a few years (nearly a decade), and put it onto github, put together a CI system, and away it went. A few volunteers have been diligently working away on improving it, particularly `vindarel`, who has really taken the lead for content work in the last couple years as I've been pulled away by other things…

If you knew it already here are the last additions of this year: - new: equality page: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/equality.html (= eq eql equal equalp string= … explained) - new: building dynamic libraries, callable from C and Python: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/dynamic-libraries... - not new: editors beyond Emacs and Vim: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Pulsar (good CL support with SLIMA), VSCode, Intellij, Sublime, Jupyter… Lem has a new cloud-based…