Topics

• Getting started with common-lisp
• format
• Functions as first class values
• LOOP, a Common Lisp macro for iteration
• Cons cells and lists
• Streams
• Booleans and Generalized Booleans
• Working with databases
• Mapping functions over lists
• Equality and other comparison predicates

Examples

• Basic Usage and Simple Directives
• The simple Hello World program in REPL
• Conditionally executing LOOP clauses
• Basic expressions
• True and False
• Generalized Booleans
• Defining functions that take functions and return functions
• Simple use of PostgreSQL with Postmodern
• Sketching cons cells
• Copying a file
• Reading and writing entire files to and from strings
• Overview
• Examples of MAPCAR
• Examples of MAPLIST
• Examples of MAPCAN and MAPCON
• Examples of MAPC and MAPL
• The difference between EQ and EQL
• Structural equality with EQUAL, EQUALP, TREE-EQUAL
• Comparison operators on numeric values
• Comparison operators on characters and strings
• Overwiew