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Hi, I'm sorry if this is a dumb question:

I am new to Common Lisp and have been doing some research on everything available. So, yesterday night I installed Quicklisp for my ACL (Allegro Common Lisp - Express Edition). There are so many libraries that can be loaded into my lisp, but, my question is, is there anyway to know what these libraries do exactly? I mean, some of them have good names, such as array-operations, but some are very obscure. Is there a list that explains them in detail or anything? If I need to load a library I'd like to know that what I'm loading is exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks!

The is CLiki, although it is a wiki and might not always be fully up to date. Unfortunately documentation is often a weak side of Lisp libraries.

You may try looking for libraries in cl-user and common-lisp.net.

This is what I'm usually doing:

• http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html - names of the libraries loadable via quicklisp
• http://www.cl-user.net/asp/2FLT/sdata... - links to approx. 650 libraries in the Common Lisp Directory
• If that doesn't help I search the Cliki
• And if that doesn't help I ask Google about "Common Lisp <library-name>"

HTH - edgar

Thanks for all the great links!