.TH LISP 1 "1 October 1980"
is a lisp interpreter for a dialect which
closely resembles MIT's M\s-2ACLISP\s0.
This lisp, known as F\s-2RANZ\s0\ L\s-2ISP\s0, features
an I/O facility which allows the user to change the input
macro characters, and maintain compatibility with upper-case
infinite precision integer arithmetic, and
an error facility which allows the user to trap system errors in
Interpreted functions may be mixed with code compiled by
and both may be debugged using the
``Joseph Lister'' trace package.
containing compiled and interpreted code may be dumped into
There are too many functions to list here; one should refer to the
An early version was written by Jeff Levinsky, Mike Curry, and John Breedlove.
Keith Sklower wrote and is maintaining the current version,
with the assistance of John Foderaro.
The garbage collector was implemented by Bill Rowan.
/usr/lib/lisp/trace.l Joseph Lister trace package
/usr/lib/lisp/toplevel.l top level read-eval-print loop
`F\s-2RANZ\s0\ L\s-2ISP\s0 Manual, Version 1'
The error system is in a state of flux and not all error messages are
as informative as they could be.