At over a thousand pages the Common Lisp specification is a thick document but that space is worth it, especially the many welcome examples. The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) specification is about a third that long and has nearly no examples, which makes the many concepts and features harder to understand.
Examples are underrated in software documentation.
https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front
@amoroso the Symbolics CLIM documentation has three parts: Tutorial, User's Guide and Dictionary. The older Dynamic Windows documentation has even more content, maybe twice as much.
The CL spec has examples mostly for individual functionality, but still lacks larger examples and a tutorial - that's not the role of a spec. I would for example recommend for learning CL to read something like PCL or PAIP, and use the CL Spec as a reference, plus for example the CL Cookbook or CL Recipes.
@symbolics Yes, I read the Symbolics CLIM documentation and it's really helpful.
