1 Introduction
1.1 About this manual
This manual describes the features and tools available in LispWorks, and how to use them.
The first group of chapters in this book describes some of the central programming tools in and features in LispWorks:
- Chapter 2, "Windows Modules", describes how to load the different libraries available in LispWorks.
- Chapter 2, "The Debugger", covers the TTY debugger.
- Chapter 4, "The Trace Facility".
- Chapter 5, "The Advice Facility".
- Chapter 7, "The Compiler".
- Chapter 8, "Storage Management", covers the use of the garbage collector.
- Chapter 9, "The Profiler".
The next chapter, Chapter 10, "Simple Customization of LispWorks", explains how to perform some commonly required customizations, such as controlling start-up appearance of LispWorks.
The next group of chapters describe features of specialist interest.
- Chapter 12, "Multiprocessing", including stack groups and locks.
- Chapter 13, "Common Defsystem" describes how to use
defsystemto combine a series of source files into a manageable project. - Chapter 14, "The Parser Generator".
- Chapter 15, "Common SQL" explains how to use LispWorks to communicate with databases using SQL.
- Chapter 16, "User Defined Streams" provides an illustrative example showing how to define and implement your own streams.
Please note that documentation for Graphics Ports has been moved to the CAPI User Guide and CAPI Reference Manual