^"CLOS is a standard. Multiple vendors supply CLOS. CLOS (or parts of it) is being used to add object-orientation to other Lisp dialects such as EuLisp or Emacs Lisp." p. 110 of Veitch 1998
^In the Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) slides, Peter Norvig presents his findings that 16 out of 23 design patterns taken from various textbooks are either "invisible or simpler" in Dylan or Common Lisp than in C++.
^pg 46 of Thompson, C. W., Ross, K. M., Tennant, H. R., and Saenz, R. M. 1983. "Building Usable Menu-Based Natural Language Interfaces To Databases". In Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Very Large Data Bases (October 31 – November 2, 1983). M. Schkolnick and C. Thanos, Eds. Very Large Data Bases. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 43–55.
^Daniel G. Bobrow, Kenneth Kahn, Gregor Kiczales, Larry Masinter, Mark Stefik, Frank Zdybel. CommonLoops, Merging Lisp and Object-Oriented Programming. Portland, Oregon, United States. Pages 17–29 of the Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications. 1986 [2022-04-28]. ISSN 0362-1340. (原始内容存档于2022-04-28).
Jim Veitch. A History and Description of CLOS. Peter H. Salus(英语:Peter H. Salus) (编). Handbook of Programming Languages, Volume IV: Functional and Logic Programming Languages. Macmillan Technical Publishing. 1998 (1st edition): 107–158. ISBN 1-57870-011-6.请检查|date=中的日期值 (帮助)
Fundamentals of CLOS (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Nick Levine provides a step-by-step exposure to the implementation of OO concepts in CLOS, and how to utilize them. It is intended for anybody with a basic knowledge of Lisp or Scheme.