Welcome to CLiki

CLiki is a Common Lisp wiki. It contains resources for learning about and using the programming language Common Lisp, and information about DFSG-compliant free software implemented in Common Lisp.

CLiki Resources

• Getting Started - Practical tips and basics for newcomers to Lisp
• Free Software Common Lisp implementations
• Development tools
• Current recommended libraries
• User-contribued FAQ
• Lisp Conferences
• Persons of any age who contribute to CLiki
• Lisp books
• Online tutorials
• Other Documents
• Lisp Videos/screencasts
• Humor - Laugh, it's funny ;)
• Stand-alone applications written in Common Lisp

Other Common Lisp Resources

• Planet Lisp blog aggregator
• LispForum online discussion board
• The #lisp IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
• Local Lisp users' groups
• Lisp Games Wiki
• The Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp - prime flaming ground (also check out GMane)
• Lisp jobs (see also Functional Jobs)
• Association of Lisp Users wiki has information about commercial Common Lisp projects and other Lisp dialects
• common-lisp.net - Hosting for open source Common Lisp projects

Free Software Lisp Libraries (Don't forget to check out the current recommended libraries list)

• Audio playback and editing
• Concurrency/multicore programming
• Cryptography and digests
• Database libraries
• Data formats/file formats
• Data structures
• Distributed systems
• Document preparation tools
• FFIs for talking to other languages
• Games (see also the Lisp Games Wiki)
• Graphics library-s for drawing and image manipulation
• GUI toolkits
• Internationalization and Unicode
• Language extensions (generators, iteration, pattern matching, etc.)
• Mathematics packages
• Music composition
• Networking (sockets, email, protocols, etc.)
• Programming language implementations in Lisp
• S-exp syntaxes that let you write other languages in Lisp
• System programming tools for dealing with OS and implementation specifics
• Text processing software (regex/parsers/lexers etc.)
• Units (time, distance, weight, etc. and validation)
• Web software
• XML, DOM, and RDF tools
• Misc: Geospatial/GIS software, Electronics design, Bioinformatics, AI (Artificial Intelligence), CAD

Some things don't really fit anywhere in the current structure, so are presently uncategorized. There are also listings of all articles and articles that have been deleted.

Adding and editing

The site is maintained using CLiki. CLiki is a collaborative web authoring system modelled on Wiki. It welcomes your contributions - please see the CLiki Content guidelines for more information.

For any testing of CLiki and its editing features, please use the CLiki Sandbox.

See Keeping up with CLiki on information about following changes to CLiki articles using news feeds.

To report problems in using CLiki, see CLiki Bugs. No software is perfect.

Spam Reversion

Sometimes spammers edit CLiki pages in a futile hope to boost their Google ranking (I don't know why, it doesn't help). See the Spam Reversion page for details on reverting it.

Domain Registration

The cliki.net domain name is now owned by Drew Crampsie and The Tech Co-op. The Co-op has offered to cover the expense into the indefinite future.