From: The Lord of Darkness
Subject: General LISP question...(FAQ??)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <30D5A5D7.BA9@rcru.rl.ac.uk>

Apology - I'm not a LISP programmer....

I've been writing an interpreter for an array based FFT/Signal analysis engine that I've 
constructed to aid my PhD work (very like IDL). After much toil and headache I now have a fairly 
nice working program. However I have now discovered that what I have actually done is write a 
simple LISP interpreter, the essence being that code and data are interchangeable and so I can 
now write programs that write programs (except that this doesn't actually work properly yet).
I have to confess to being somewhat disappointed to discover that LISP does what I wanted to do 
and has been around for donkeys years. 
Can anyone tell me if there exists a web site which contains a good synopsis of the LISP language 
and it's use, so that I can incorporate more of it's functionality into my program.

I'd rather read some well put together stuff than dozens of badly written books, or 
alternatively, if there is a FAQ that describes it well, please point me in the right direction.

Thanks for your time

John B