COMMON LISP in An Interactive Approach Author:Henry Coleman Your goal for this chapter is to learn how to access your system?s Common Lisp and how to exit from it. Although this may not seem like much, it is obviously very important. It is also very dependent on the particular system you are using, so you will have to get much of the information from a manual, a teacher, a consultant, or a friend. The fi... more »rst problem is to log onto your computer system. This might involve simply turning on your microcomputer or it might require typing in some accounting information. If you are using a Lisp machine or have ?booted? a microcomputer with a Common Lisp disk, you may already be talking to Common Lisp. Otherwise, you will have to access it. This might require just typing lisp, cl, some abbreviation of the implementation of Common Lisp that you are using, or it might require first retrieving the Common Lisp system.« less