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Lisp Implementations

• Common Lisp Implementations: A Survey
  • current Lisp Implementations
  
  
• The Best Open Source CL Implementation by BillClementson?
  • Steel Bank Common Lisp
    • http://sbcl-internals.cliki.net/
    • the SBCL bootstrapping process
    • SBCL-talk
  
  
• http://www.lisp.org/table/systems.htm
  • GNU CLISP
    
  
  
• CLOCC - the Common Lisp Open Code Collection
  
  
• http://www.newlisp.org/
  • http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/01/how-newlisp-took-my-breath-and-syntax-away/
    
  
  
• http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl
  
  
• Liskell Haskell semantics in Lisp syntax
  
  
• http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2005/07/termite-lisp-for-distributed-computing.html --Termite: a Lisp for Distributed Computing
  • http://lisp-ecoop05.bknr.net/pdf/19654
  • http://theschemeway.blogspot.com/2007/04/introduction-to-termite.html
• http://code.google.com/p/termite/

• CMUCL - compiler seems to be written in Python
  • http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
  • http://www.cons.org/cracauer/lisp.html
  
  
• Liquid
  
  
• ECL - Embedded Common Lisp
  
  
• PicoLisp?
  • http://picolisp.com/
  • http://software-lab.de/down.html
    • http://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html
      
  
  
• Arc by PaulGraham
  • http://arclanguage.org/

On JVM

• Clojure

On .Net

• http://www.lsharp.org/ - a Lisp in C#
• http://www.weitz.de/rdnzl/ - interop with .Net from Lisp
• ClojureOnDotNet

Big Players in commercial Lisp

• Allegro by Franz
• http://www.lispworks.com/

IDEs

Genera (historic)

• http://lispm.dyndns.org/symbolics-screenshots/symbolics-screenshots.html
• http://lispm.dyndns.org/symbolics-4.html - eingescannte Genera-Anleitung
• Finally got Open Genera running

Images

• Freezing Lisp in Time
  • The resulting core file is 25M (7.1M bzip2'd), which is a bit large, because it bundles the Lisp library, including things you don't use, together with the SBCL executable. The SBCL executable binary itself, however, is rather small and contains mostly just the garbage collector and a few other things. In fact, most of Lisp is stored in a core image.
  • On the up side, the image you just saved includes all libraries in use, so there are no external dependencies (save for any C/C++ libraries you might have FFI'd in). Ultimately, this gives you a good method for distributing your application together with a full Lisp!
  
  
• http://ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/package/lisp/
  • A Common Lisp image is an executable file that contains a complete base Common Lisp system plus compiled packages