Re: Pocket Reference for Common Lisp

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:39:17 -0600, dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm reading and getting a lot out of _Practical Common Lisp_. I'd
like to get a pocket book documenting all the common lisp functions,
macros, etc for use when writing lisp code. O'Reilly doesn't seem
to do Lisp. Is there such from another source?

The closest thing you'll probably get on paper is the 90-page (IIRC)
appendix of Paul Graham's book "ANSI Common Lisp" which is a short
reference to all special forms, functions, macros, variables, etc. of
the standard. Not exactly a pocket book, but at least a paperback.

If you have some kind of "e-book reader" (iLiad, Kindle, Sony, etc.)
that can display HTML in an acceptable way, the CLHS is hard to beat,
though.

Edi.

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