<div dir="ltr">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: <a href="https://github.com/hanshuebner/lmman">https://github.com/hanshuebner/lmman</a><div>
<br></div><div style>-Hans</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Vr Rm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vrrm00@gmail.com" target="_blank">vrrm00@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
(I guess this gets to be the first post on the list!)<br>
<br>
Lately, I've been reading through Brad Parker's excellent Lisp Machine site:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.unlambda.com" target="_blank">http://www.unlambda.com</a><br>
<br>
I even got the MIT CADR simulator working. *whew* In addition to the<br>
runnable CADR code, I also noticed that all the source for the<br>
original MIT Lisp system documentation was available. One peculiar<br>
thing about Lisp is that there're really no free comprehensive<br>
documentation of the standard. There are a number of excellent<br>
programming books (arguably a few of them are the best programming<br>
books ever written) available for download at no cost, but the<br>
copyrights are withheld on those and they're not not up-to-date. The<br>
Lisp Works hyperspec is the most up-to-date, freely available<br>
reference document I know of, but to be honest I find it extremely<br>
cumbersome to use and often quit confusing. And again, it's not free<br>
so it's not available in different formats and integration is<br>
difficult in existing Lisp system. None of the free Common Lisp<br>
implementations I know of document the language itself only quirks of<br>
the given implementation and platform specific extensions.<br>
<br>
So, while it documents an extremely early version of Common Lisp, the<br>
MIT Lisp Machine manual (called the Chinual) is the only free<br>
reference work of Common Lisp I know of. Like all of the subsequent<br>
Symbolics documentation, it is a model of clarity and organisation, so<br>
I don't think it's that far-fetched to think of using it as a basis<br>
for a comprehensive, free Common Lisp reference work.<br>
<br>
The extracted files can be found here on BitBucket:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/vrrm/xoanon-doc" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/vrrm/xoanon-doc</a> (under the orig-mit-extract branch)<br>
<br>
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