Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer’s Secret Weapon

Table of Contents
Cover Material, Copyright, and License
Preface
	Notes on the Sixth Edition Published June 2020
	Notes on the Fifth Edition Published September 2019
	Why Use Common Lisp?
	A Request from the Author
	Older Book Editions
	Acknowledgments
	Setting Up Your Common Lisp Development System and Quicklisp
	List of Quicklisp Projects and Small Examples in this Book
Introduction
	Why Did I Write this Book?
	Free Software Tools for Common Lisp Programming
	How is Lisp Different from Languages like Java and C++?
	Advantages of Working in a Lisp Environment
Common Lisp Basics
	Getting Started with SBCL
	Making the repl Nicer using rlwrap
	The Basics of Lisp Programming
	Symbols
	Operations on Lists
	Using Arrays and Vectors
	Using Strings
	Using Hash Tables
	Using Eval to Evaluate Lisp Forms
	Using a Text Editor to Edit Lisp Source Files
	Recovering from Errors
	Garbage Collection
	Loading your Working Environment Quickly
	Functional Programming Concepts
Quicklisp
	Using Quicklisp to Find Packages
	Using Quicklisp to Configure Emacs and Slime
Defining Lisp Functions
	Using Lambda Forms
	Using Recursion
	Closures
	Using the Function eval
Defining Common Lisp Macros
	Example Macro
	Using the Splicing Operator
	Using macroexpand-1
Using Common Lisp Loop Macros
	dolist
	dotimes
	do
	Using the loop Special Form to Iterate Over Vectors or Arrays
Common Lisp Package System
Input and Output
	The Lisp read and read-line Functions
	Lisp Printing Functions
Plotting Data
	Implementing the Library
	Packaging as a Quicklisp Project
Common Lisp Object System - CLOS
	Example of Using a CLOS Class
	Implementation of the HTMLstream Class
	Using Defstruct or CLOS
Heuristically Guided Search
Network Programming
	An introduction to Drakma
	An introduction to Hunchentoot
	Complete REST Client Server Example Using JSON for Data Serialization
	Network Programming Wrap Up
Using the Microsoft Bing Search APIs
	Getting an Access Key for Microsoft Bing Search APIs
	Example Search Script
	Wrap-up
Accessing Relational Databases
	Database Wrap Up
Using MongoDB, Solr NoSQL Data Stores
	MongoDB
	A Common Lisp Solr Client
	NoSQL Wrapup
Natural Language Processing
	Loading and Running the NLP Library
	Part of Speech Tagging
	Categorizing Text
	Detecting People's Names and Place Names
	Summarizing Text
	Text Mining
Information Gathering
	DBPedia Lookup Service
	Web Spiders
	Using Apache Nutch
	Wrap Up
Using The CL Machine-Learning Library
	Using the CLML Data Loading and Access APIs
	K-Means Clustering of Cancer Data Set
	SVM Classification of Cancer Data Set
	CLML Wrap Up
Backpropagation Neural Networks
Hopfield Neural Networks
Using Python Deep Learning Models In Common Lisp With a Web Services Interface
	Setting up the Python Web Services Used in this Chapter
	Installing the spaCY NLP Services
	Installing the Coreference NLP Services
	Common Lisp Client for the spaCy NLP Web Services
	Common Lisp Client for the Coreference NLP Web Services
	Trouble Shooting Possible Problems - Skip if this Example Works on Your System
	Python Interop Wrap-up
Using the PY4CL Library to Embed Python in Common Lisp
	Project Structure, Building the Python Wrapper, and Running an Example
	Implementation of spacy-py4cl
	Trouble Shooting Possible Problems - Skip if this Example Works on Your System
	Wrap-up for Using Py4CL
Automatically Generating Data for Knowledge Graphs
	Implementation Notes
	Generating RDF Data
	Generating Data for the Neo4j Graph Database
	Implementing the Top Level Application APIs
	Implementing The Web Interface
	Creating a Standalone Application Using SBCL
	KGCreator Wrap Up
Knowledge Graph Navigator
	Example Output
	Project Configuration and Running the Application
	Review of NLP Utilities Used in Application
	Developing Low-Level SPARQL Utilities
	Implementing the Caching Layer
	Utilities to Colorize SPARQL and Generated Output
	Text Utilities for Queries and Results
	Using LispWorks CAPI UI Toolkit
	Writing Utilities for the UI
	Writing the UI
	Wrap-up
Book Wrapup