[Lisp-machine] MIT Lisp Machine documentation

[Hans Hübner]

I have converted the Bolio sources for the Chinual to an (I think) more
useful XML format that would be a good basis for either editing or
conversion to another authoring format that could then be edited.  Find it
here:  https://github.com/hanshuebner/lmman

-Hans


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Vr Rm <vrrm00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (I guess this gets to be the first post on the list!)
>
> Lately, I've been reading through Brad Parker's excellent Lisp Machine
> site:
>
> http://www.unlambda.com
>
> I even got the MIT CADR simulator working. *whew* In addition to the
> runnable CADR code, I also noticed that all the source for the
> original MIT Lisp system documentation was available.  One peculiar
> thing about Lisp is that there're really no free comprehensive
> documentation of the standard.  There are a number of excellent
> programming books (arguably a few of them are the best programming
> books ever written) available for download at no cost, but the
> copyrights are withheld on those and they're not not up-to-date.  The
> Lisp Works hyperspec is the most up-to-date, freely available
> reference document I know of, but to be honest I find it extremely
> cumbersome to use and often quit confusing. And again, it's not free
> so it's not available in different formats and integration is
> difficult in existing Lisp system.  None of the free Common Lisp
> implementations I know of document the language itself only quirks of
> the given implementation and platform specific extensions.
>
> So, while it documents an extremely early version of Common Lisp, the
> MIT Lisp Machine manual (called the Chinual) is the only free
> reference work of Common Lisp I know of.  Like all of the subsequent
> Symbolics documentation, it is a model of clarity and organisation, so
> I don't think it's that far-fetched to think of using it as a basis
> for a comprehensive, free Common Lisp reference work.
>
> The extracted files can be found here on BitBucket:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/vrrm/xoanon-doc (under the orig-mit-extract branch)
>
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