General For the most part, Graham's Lisp code is maintainable and portable. Function definitions are short and well-motivated. Exceptions are noted below. However, there are a few areas where Graham's coding style should not be considered typical: Naming: Like Unix, Graham likes short names, often to the point of crypticness. See my notes on naming for a better way. Conditionals: Graham uses if rather than cond, even when using if leads to nested if's or embedded progn's. Loops: Graham avoids loop, because it is so easily misused and different from the functional programming style. Sometimes, however, loop is the clearest simplest way to write something. Preference for recursion over iteration, even if it might lead to code that causes stack overflows on very long lists. Here are more detailed comments on particular chapters:
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