Our group is created for the mutual teaching and learning of the programming language Common Lisp, with the back-up possibility of face-to-face meetings in Bangalore, India and telephone contact. It is not for evangelism. That takes too much time and energy and is probably counterproductive with Common Lisp. Questions such as `I just don't understand what makes Lisp macros such a big deal; please explain' are welcome, however.

There is an associated website, http://bangalore-lisp.tripod.com, created for easy navigation of some hypertext.

This group is for mutual help. It is not for lazy people who don't make a good effort to learn the language. If you are one of those and thinking to join this group, you had better start with google.com first to find other groups -- or start a group meant for asymmetric flow of knowledge. You can also visit the webpage http://www.cliki.net/LispNewbies.

You are cordially invited to join our group. Please keep in mind the purpose of the group is mutual sharing of information. It can take some time to understand the value of Common Lisp, so we don't want to concentrate here on elementary questions and curiosity seekers' idle chat. There is no substitute for a good book on Common Lisp.

On the associated site, http://bangalore-lisp.tripod.com, we list some Web links to help you get to the point where you, too can contribute to our http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangalore-lisp/messages> discussion.

Finally, we want to mention that if the discussion is very quiet, that is okay with us..... Oops! Yahoo! Group descriptions can only be 2000 characters long!