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24 alternatives to My book, The Common Lisp Condition System
My book, The Common Lisp Condition System is a guide focused on Common Lisp's error handling and exception management framework. It is written for programmers working with Common Lisp who want to understand and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My book, The Common Lisp Condition System launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1FS
2016 · fullstacklisp.com · its alternatives →
- 2IM
2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →
- 3IW
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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Thread-safe Common Lisp style conditions and restarts for Clojure(Script) and Babashka. - IGJoshua/farolero
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The notebook-style Common Lisp environment. Contribute to tamamu/darkmatter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 6PA
2021 · apress.com · its alternatives →
- 7
2025 · turtleware.eu · its alternatives →
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GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2011 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Lisp in C#▲144a custom Lisp. Contribute to codr7/sharpl development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 10IW
https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j... This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand. Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Implementation of the standard is still not complete, but breakpoints and stepping work quite well! It also has some support for watchpoints, that no implementation has. Now it ships with ASDF and is capable of loading systems! Let me know if you like it. Support on Patreon or Liberapay is much appreciated
2025 · savannah.nongnu.org · its alternatives →
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I created this because sometimes I want more than rlwrap but less than emacs. icl aims to hit that middle sweet spot. It's a terminal application with context-aware auto-complete, an interactive object inspector, auto-indentation, syntax colouring, persistent history, and much more. It uses sly to communicate with the child lisp process and aims to be compatible with any sly-supporting implementation. I hope others find it useful!
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lisp rosetta stone to demonstrate modern language features - eatonphil/lisp-rosetta-stone
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp - GitHub - codr7/whirlog: a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 15LW
2021 · justine.lol · its alternatives →
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A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's "On Lisp". - DalekBaldwin/on-lisp
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rust but Lisp▲218Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18MI
An interactive book introducing programming with ClojureScript
2017 · langintro.com · its alternatives →
- 19CL
A month or so ago, I ported a Common Lisp implementation (npt) to WebAssembly to make a silly blog post, because I was bored and have a lot of time on my hands to waste with things like this (I don't have a job, and because I have next to no experience, these meaningless, silly projects tend to fill what time I do have). This is significant as it's the first time Common Lisp in particular has ever been hosted on it; wasm has a few poor decisions in its design that make it less-than-conducive to being a target for Common Lisp, and a lot of the more interesting implementations require an…
2022 · soi-disant.srht.site · its alternatives →
- 20AT
2025 · logic.manoel.dev · its alternatives →
- 21RL
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A Lisp interpreter written as an untyped lambda calculus term
2022 · woodrush.github.io · its alternatives →
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An experimental minimal chat written in Common Lisp - ryukinix/lisp-chat
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Moved to Forgejo! Contribute to krig/LISP development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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