LISP Project...

I've been trying to learn lisp recently, and I've been able to type things into the interpreter and get it to spit out sane results, however...

I don't know how to create any kind of little compiled program using the language.  None of the tutorials I've read show anything about how to get input from the console or any shit like that, none of them show you where the equivalent of void Main () is, (though I think they might just execute linearly...  defun seems to just apply to anything that comes after it) they mostly just describe the language without telling you how to do anything.

Does anyone know where I can download lisp projects that I can compile and pull apart, to examine how they work etc...?

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Most good implementations compile source into either byte code or native machine code.  CMUCL and SBCL compile into native machine code and the interpreters pipe that to the CPU somehow (this is what operating systems do with running programs), while CLISP and I think GCL compile into VM bytecode (somewhat slower, like what Java does).