Hi folks,

this list has been created in response to an email by Dan Weinreb, addressed to a bunch of Common Lisp programmers that he knows, who wondered where to turn to for some advice on the existence of certain Common Lisp libraries. comp.lang.lisp was deemed not to be the right place, because it is full of spam and requires sophisticated special-purpose software and regular care taking to be readable. Thus, we came up with the idea of a mailing list targeted at people who already know and use Common Lisp and who don't want to discuss the merits of it or how other languages are worse or better.

This is an implementation-agnostic list. Discussing any Common Lisp implementation is on-topic, although implementation specific questions are probably better discussed on the respective mailing lists. We generally also know why we chose one implementation over another, so "my implementation/your implementation"-type discussions should not be started unless they are technical (as opposed to license-oriented).

Be inclusive and friendly, accept commercial and non-commercial developers. Let's not use the word "free" here, unless it is about beer. :)

-Hans