Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-375).
Getting started -- Symbolic computation -- Defining our own functions -- Predicates, conditionals, and logical operators -- Recursion -- Iteration in LISP -- Property lists -- Functions as arguments: EVAL, APPLY, and mapping functions -- Lambda -- Reading and writing -- Debugging -- Other kinds of functions -- Macros -- Read macros -- Dotted pairs and other internals -- Error handling and nonstandard flow of control -- The LISP symbol table -- Other data types -- Systems functions -- Compilation -- LISP applications: pattern matching -- LISP applications: associative data base management -- Appendix A. Summary of Franz LISP functions -- Appendix B. Special Franz LISP symbols -- Bibliography -- Index.