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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><title>Chapter1.Introduction</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.62.4" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SBCL User Manual" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="SBCL User Manual" /><link rel="previous" href="index.html" title="SBCL User Manual" /><link rel="next" href="where-more.html" title="Where To Go For More Information About SBCL" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter1.Introduction</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a></td><th width="60%" align="center"></th><td width="20%" align="right"><a accesskey="n" href="where-more.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="intro"></a>Chapter1.Introduction</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="intro.html#more-cl-info">Where To Go For More Information about Common Lisp in General</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="where-more.html">Where To Go For More Information About SBCL</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="implementation.html">Overview Of SBCL, How It Works And Where It Came From</a></span></dt></dl></div><p><span class="application">SBCL</span> is a mostly-conforming implementation of the <span class="acronym">ANSI</span>
Common Lisp standard. This manual focuses on behavior which is
specific to <span class="application">SBCL</span>, not on behavior which is common to all
implementations of <span class="acronym">ANSI</span> Common Lisp.</p><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="more-cl-info"></a>Where To Go For More Information about Common Lisp in General</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>Regardless of your ability level, two very useful resources
for working with any implementation of
Common Lisp are the
<a href="http://ilisp.cons.org" target="_top"><span class="application">ILISP</span></a>
package for <span class="application">Emacs</span> and
<a href="http://www.harlequin.com/books/HyperSpec" target="_top">the Common Lisp
HyperSpec</a>.</p><p>If you're not a programmer and you're trying to learn,
many introductory Lisp books are available. However, we don't have any
standout favorites. If you can't decide, try checking the Usenet
comp.lang.lisp FAQ for recent recommendations.</p><p>If you are an experienced programmer in other languages
but need to learn about Lisp, three books stand out.
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><span class="emphasis"><em>ANSI Common Lisp</em></span>, by Paul Graham,
will teach you about most of the language. (And later it might
also be worth checking out <span class="emphasis"><em>On Lisp</em></span>, by the same
author.)</p></li><li><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence
Programming</em></span>, by Peter Norvig, also has some good information
on general Common Lisp programming, and many nontrivial examples.
Whether or not your work is AI, it's a very good book to look
at.</p></li><li><p>
Neither of the books above emphasizes CLOS, but
<span class="emphasis"><em>Object-Oriented Programming In Common Lisp</em></span> by Sonya Keene
does. Even if you're very knowledgeable about object oriented
programming in the abstract, it's worth looking at this book
if you want to do any OO in Common Lisp. Some abstractions
in CLOS (especially multiple dispatch) go beyond anything
you'll see in most OO systems, and there are a number of lesser
differences as well. This book tends to help with the culture shock.
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