The newsgroup comp.lang.lisp exists for general discussion of

topics related to the programming language Lisp. For example, possible

topics can include (but are not necessarily limited to):

announcements of Lisp books and products

discussion of programs and utilities written in Lisp

discussion of portability issues

questions about possible bugs in Lisp implementations

problems porting an implementation to some architecture

Postings should be of general interest to the Lisp community. See also

question [4-9]. Postings asking for solutions to homework problems are

inappropriate.

The comp.lang.lisp newsgroup is archived in

ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/news/comp.lang.lisp/

on a weekly basis.

Every so often, somebody posts an inflammatory message, such as

My programming language is better than yours (Lisp vs. C/Prolog/Scheme).

Loop (or Series) should/shouldn't be part of the language.

These "religious" issues serve no real purpose other than to waste

bandwidth. If you feel the urge to respond to such a post, please do

so through a private e-mail message.

Questions about object oriented programming in Lisp should be directed

to the newsgroup comp.lang.clos. Similarly, questions about the

programming language Scheme should be directed to the newsgroup

comp.lang.scheme. Discussion of functional programming language issues

should be directed to the newsgroup comp.lang.functional. Discussion

of AI programs implemented in Lisp should sometimes be cross-posted to

the newsgroup comp.ai.