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15.1 Introduction

Common Lisp is a new dialect of Lisp,

• a successor to MacLisp,
• influenced strongly by Zetalisp,
• and to some extent by Scheme and
• Interlisp.

• Purpose
• Notational Conventions
• Evaluation—Expansion—Equivalence
• Errors
• Descriptions of Functions and Other Entities
• The Lisp Reader
• Overview of Syntax