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LISP is a list-processing language orinally developed by John McCarthy at MIT in 1960 for use in artificial intelligence research. Notable for its use of lists enclosed in parentheses for representing both programs and data, it is sometimes said that LISP is an acronym for "Lots of Irritating Single Parentheses". The fact that programs and data are both represented as lists makes this one of the few high-level languages which can generate data and then execute it as code.
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| A shareware Lisp interpreter for MS-DOS |
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| XLisp, another free Lisp implementation which includes versions for DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 95/NT |
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| A free Common Lisp interpreter for MS-DOS (386 or later processor required) |
| Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big: a look at the successes and failures of Lisp |
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| A Lisp Primer |
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| The Lisp FAQ from the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp |
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| The Functional Programming FAQ |
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| Common Lisp: The Language (2nd edition): a complete online copy of Guy L. Steele's classic reference book |
| Harlequin, Inc. provide a range of Lisp software and documentation, including a free Common Lisp implementation for Windows |
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| The Franz website, which has a free implementation of Common Lisp for Windows available for downloading |
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| Lisp resources at the WWW Virtual Library |
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| The Lisp section of the AI Repository at Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Lisp links at Yahoo (or at Yahoo UK) |
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| The newsgroup comp.lang.lisp |