Some Details of LISP
By Richard Weyhrauch

This note is called: [LISP]
The notations used in this note is described in [NOTATION]
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Contents:

• Preface
• The LISP Reader
• The Common Understanding of LISP Systems

Preface

This note collects tpgether some other notes around the central theme of how lisp works. My interest in this is not to provide an implementation guide for LISP but rather to describe in detail how I think LISP's architectural features are important to the satisfaction of our goal:

GOAL: to build an artifact that can think

The Lisp Reader

The LISP reader has the task of 'reading' a stream of characters and extracting from that stream a stream of s-expressions.