The book covers the following topics: Strings, Dates and Times, Hash Tables, Pattern Matching
or Regular Expressions, Functions, Loop, Input or Output, Files and Directories,
Packages, Macros and Backquote, CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System), Sockets,
Interfacing with your OS, Foreign Function Interfaces, Threads, Defining
Systems, Setting up an IDE with Emacs on Windows or Mac OS X, Using Emacs as a
Lisp IDE, Using the Win32 API and Testing.
This note explains the following
topics: Operating a CL development environment, The CL language, CL as a case
tool, CL as an internet application server.