Anthology

In literature, anthologies are collections of interesting or representative full works, or partial quotes, that are worth discussing and studying. This page is an attempt to create an Anthology of Common Lisp code.

You may add links to any code that is particularly well documented, interesting, well designed, elegant, readable, efficient, concise yet clear, robust, implements an algorithm in a clever way, takes advantage of some language feature, or is just beautiful. You name it -- literally.

The code in this page should be above the average or unique in some way. In short, it should be, well, worth including in an anthology. Obfuscated code does not belong here, we want to learn something -- useful.

Due to space constraints, it is better if you include only links, not the actual code. Here is a sample entry template, which you can copy and paste:

Name of the system of which the code is part

Briefly tell here which parts of the system are anthology code, and why you think they are interesting. Liberally use bullet lists:

first interesting source file, and why
other interesting source file, and why

Place your entries below.

Following code is not a part of any system. However, perhaps, it shows well some nice features of CL.

Fibonacci Function Example shows how to turn programs with exponential time growth into polynomial. One could give just a lingual hint in a good language, and not the complete instructions by the programmer, which have to be given in other popular languages.
All in one piece: mop+macro+conditions

Anthology Code Entries

The book is not online, but the examples in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp are mostly very good.

It's a shame to have this list empty, can be very helpful to us, the newbie Lispniks who don't know where the good code is.

This page is linked from: Valery Khamenya

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