GNU Common Lisp

GNU Common Lisp ( GCL ) is a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language. The source code is here partly under the GPL, partly under the LGPL, the binary packages exclusively under the GPL.

History

Origin is the Kyoto Common Lisp system that was written in 1984 by Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya. In 1987 William Schelter his work on it, the name was now AKCL (Austin Kyoto Common Lisp ). AKCL was released in 1994 as GNU Common Lisp. After the death of William Schelter 2001, the project from other developers will continue.

Platforms

GCL is currently running on 11 GNU / Linux architectures (x86, PowerPC, S/390, SPARC, ARM, Alpha, IA -64, PA -RISC, m68k, MIPS, MIPSEL ), Windows, SPARC Solaris and FreeBSD.

Objectives

Originally GCL should only meet the CLtL1 standard, but now is the declared aim of meeting the ANSI Common Lisp standard.

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