There are several things a Pop-11 user needs to know about lists:
What they are used for
How to construct them
How to extract information from them
How they are represented in the machine
How dynamic lists and static lists differ
How to compare them or test them to see whether they satisfy
certain conditions relevant to deciding what to do.
Which facilities are available for manipulating lists
How to design your own facilities for manipulating lists
How to optimise your list-processing programs
A comprehensive overview of all these topics would require a whole book.
This chapter, introduces the basic ideas and gives some examples of how
to use them.