<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Introduction - SBCL 1.0.31 User Manual</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="SBCL 1.0.31 User Manual"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Getting-Support-and-Reporting-Bugs.html#Getting-Support-and-Reporting-Bugs" title="Getting Support and Reporting Bugs"> <link rel="next" href="Starting-and-Stopping.html#Starting-and-Stopping" title="Starting and Stopping"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This manual is part of the SBCL software system. See the `README' file for more information. This manual is largely derived from the manual for the CMUCL system, which was produced at Carnegie Mellon University and later released into the public domain. This manual is in the public domain and is provided with absolutely no warranty. See the `COPYING' and `CREDITS' files for more information. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Introduction"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Starting-and-Stopping.html#Starting-and-Stopping">Starting and Stopping</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Getting-Support-and-Reporting-Bugs.html#Getting-Support-and-Reporting-Bugs">Getting Support and Reporting Bugs</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <!-- node-name, next, previous, up --> <h2 class="chapter">2 Introduction</h2> <p>SBCL is a mostly-conforming implementation of the ANSI Common Lisp standard. This manual focuses on behavior which is specific to SBCL, not on behavior which is common to all implementations of ANSI Common Lisp. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="ANSI-Conformance.html#ANSI-Conformance">ANSI Conformance</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Extensions.html#Extensions">Extensions</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Idiosyncrasies.html#Idiosyncrasies">Idiosyncrasies</a> <li><a accesskey="4" href="Development-Tools.html#Development-Tools">Development Tools</a> <li><a accesskey="5" href="More-SBCL-Information.html#More-SBCL-Information">More SBCL Information</a> <li><a accesskey="6" href="More-Common-Lisp-Information.html#More-Common-Lisp-Information">More Common Lisp Information</a> <li><a accesskey="7" href="History-and-Implementation-of-SBCL.html#History-and-Implementation-of-SBCL">History and Implementation of SBCL</a> </ul> </body></html>