CMU Common Lisp

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CMU Common Lisp
Publishing year: 1980
Developer: Carnegie Mellon University
Current  version 21d   (January 1, 2019)
License : Public domain
www.cons.org/cmucl/

Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp ( CMUCL ) is a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language . CMUCL is in the public domain .

history

CMUCL began under the name Spice Lisp at Carnegie Mellon University (hence the later name). The project was initially funded by DARPA . It has been evolving since the early 1980s. The financial support was discontinued in 1994, since then it has been operated as a project by various developers.

In 1999, Steel Bank Common Lisp ( SBCL ) was spun off .

Platforms

CMUCL runs on the x86 architecture under Linux , FreeBSD , OpenBSD , NetBSD and on Solaris / SPARC , Linux / Alpha , IRIX / MIPS , HP-UX / HPPA and Mac OS X / PowerPC (experimental). There are efforts to port CMUCL to Win32 / x86 as well .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Credits: project history & who's who . (accessed on February 24, 2019).
  2. Christophe Rhodes: SBCL: a Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (PDF; 176 kB).