Lisp Glossary

ASDF

(abbrev, "Another System Definition Facility" A way to package a lisp bundle together. See the CLiki page for further details.

bjc-utils

A collection of utilities the author (bjc) finds useful, and so, in order to facilitate his hacking, he has also included within Moxie.

CLHS

(abbrev, "Common Lisp HyperSpec") The authoritative reference for the ANSI ratified Common Lisp.

You may find a version of the HyperSpec online at: LispWorks

CLiki

(from "Common Lisp" and "Wiki") A Wiki devoted to Common Lisp.

See http://www.cliki.net/

CL-PPCRE

(abbrev, "Common Lisp Portable Perl Compatible Regular Expression") A Lisp package with functions to parse and match with PERL-style Regular Expressions.

See the CLiki page for further details.

ECL

(abbrev, "Embeddable Common Lisp") Moxie uses ECL for its lisp sub-system. More information on ECL can be found on the SourceForge project page

package

Packages are a kind of lisp "library". See the CLHS Chapter 11.

REPL

(abbrev, "Read, Eval, Print Loop") The main loop responsible for accepting user input, evaluating the input, and printing the results of that evaluation. The REPL is often used synonymously with "top level."

Top Level

The top-most REPL. It is the first loop instantiated by the lisp sub-system, from which everything else is evaluated.