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Asked: 2026-05-27T18:25:45+00:00

Is there a good source document/site with comprehensive comparison of the differences between Common

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Is there a good source document/site with comprehensive comparison of the differences between Common Lisp and MacLisp/Interlisp?

I’m particularly interested in the detailed description of the differences in Property List, and if any, Common Lisp implementation of some of the built-in functions/macros in MacLisp/Interlisp that doesn’t exist in Common Lisp.

Edit OK, maybe a little bit of context about my question. I was asked to ‘translate’ a Lisp tutorial which looked like it was based on MacLisp/Interlisp into one based on Common Lisp. I’m pretty new at Lisp and this project is meant to help me learn it. Hence, I was scrambling around to look for resources to help with the ‘translation’. So I turn to Stackoverflow.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Kent Pitman’s online MacLisp manual has a pretty detailed section on converting MacLisp/Zetalisp to Common Lisp, with some discussion of property lists in Section 3: Easy Changes.

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