Lisp Programming Language

By Faiz ul haque Zeya

Introduction of lisp programming language for the beginners to grasp the basics of lisp. The tutorial uses Allegro Franz lisp environment to teach lisp programming language. It teaches from car , cdr, cons to some what advanced proramming language features.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Faiz ul haque Zeya
• Release date: Mar 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476193649

Faiz ul haque Zeya

Faiz ul haque Zeya(1975-) did his MS from University of Tulsa, OK USA in Computer science AI.Started working on AI in BE and then took courses in AI in MS.He teaches AI for 7 years in different universities in Pakistan.His citation which is the work of BE project in book "Agents and computational autonomy" is present in around 400 libraries worldwide. He is CEO of Transys which develops software agents.

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Lisp programming language

Faiz ul haque Zeya

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Table of contents

1.    Introduction  of  LISP

2.    Lisp environments

3.    Data types

4.    Conditionals and Iteration, control structures

5.    I/O, Files and other

6.    Answers

Chapter 1 Introduction of LISP

This book introduces lisp languages. Lisp was invented by John McCarthy. Lisp stands for List Processor. It is an interpretive language. Statements written at the prompts are executed by the interpreter. Let us write two simple Lisp functions.

(defun square (num) (* num num))

This function computes the square of a number. ‘defun’ is used to define a function. The syntax of defun is .

(defun function-name (parameters ) function-body)

‘square’ is the name of the