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Using only car, cdr, cons, cond I am to assemble the functions, irrespective to their existence in the language or not, I initially posted above. I understand the use of the 4 predicates listed within this reply but I am very new to Lisp and it is a language quite foreign to what I am accustomed to....

I am using Lisp Works as both my editor and REPL. It uses common Lisp and is an interpreter for the language. I need help understanding how the above problems could be approached using Common Lisp.

I know Java, I know C, I know a touch of C++ but Lisp is absolute zero, well not really. I am to use car, cdr, cons, cond to write some functions and only these predicates. I know car returns first element of a list and I know cdr returns the rest and can be used to break a list down. I know cons co...