CMU Common Lisp 21e

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/releases/21e

by mepian • 3 years ago

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koito17• 3 years ago

One of the cool things about CMUCL is how its code is almost entirely in the public domain, and the parts that aren't tend to be a simple 2-clause BSD license. That's how you know the contributors do it out of love for the language and implementation :)

_emacsomancer_• 3 years ago

The same is true for SBCL[1], unsurprisingly since it came out of CMUCL.

[1] https://www.sbcl.org/history.html

lispm• 3 years ago

The implementation was originally a university project (financially supported by DARPA) with a team funded to work on that implementation. Scott Fahlman was the lead and it was important for him that the implementation, its documents and its IDE was publicly available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fahlman

abudabi123• 3 years ago

Mark Z would have a leg up on A.I. had he not designed and developed on php

behnamoh• 3 years ago

Does it have anything to do with Carnegie Mellon University?

fiddlerwoaroof• 3 years ago

Yeah:

CMUCL is a free Common Lisp implementation, originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University

kgwgk• 3 years ago

That's also the explanation for the name of its descendant: Steel Bank Common Lisp.

(Carnegie => Steel, Mellon => Bank.)

massysett• 3 years ago

Any support for Apple Silicon, or plans to do so?

r95506842• 3 years ago

highly unlikely, at this point cmucl support is a one man project by Raymond Toy. in order for the apple silicon to be supported two things need to happen, cmucl needs to be extended to support 64-bit and it needs to be ported to arm, both are major undertakings

0zemp2c• 3 years ago

one man project by Raymond Toy

Literally a Toy implementation!

mepian• 3 years ago

FYI, if you're just looking for a Common Lisp implementation for Apple Silicon, there is SBCL (which is a fork of CMU Common Lisp): https://www.sbcl.org/

User23• 3 years ago

This is really great to see. Like most people I've moved to SBCL, but it's great to see the parent project still evolving.

CMU Common Lisp 21e

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