Package sbcl: Information
Source package: sbcl
Version: 1.1.5-alt1
Build time: Mar 6, 2013, 01:33 AM
Category: Development/Lisp
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License: Distributable
Summary: Steel Bank Common ANSI Common Lisp
Description:
Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is an open source (free software) compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp. It provides an interactive environment including an integrated native compiler, a debugger, and many extensions. SBCL runs on many UNIX and UNIX-like systems. SBCL is a fork off of the main branch of CMU CL. Broadly speaking, SBCL is distinguished from CMU CL by a greater emphasis on maintainability. Maybe someday this will translate into better stability, better ANSI compliance, and so forth, but for now, the big advantage is that an SBCL system is built directly from scratch, as an ordinary software system is. SBCL also places less emphasis than CMU CL does on non-ANSI extensions, either on backward compatibility with the old CMU CL non-ANSI extensions or on adding new non-ANSI extensions. SBCL derives most of its code from CMU CL, created at Carnegie Mellon University. Radical changes have been made to some parts of the system (particularly bootstrapping) but most fundamentals (like the mapping of Lisp abstractions onto the underlying hardware, the basic architecture of the compiler, and most of the runtime support code) are only slightly changed. Enough changes have been made to the interface and architecture that calling the new system CMU Common Lisp would cause confusion - the world does not need multiple incompatible systems named CMU CL. But it's appropriate to acknowledge the descent from the CMU hackers (and post-CMU CMU CL hackers) who did most of the heavy lifting to make the system work. So the system is named Steel Bank after the industries where Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, respectively, made the big bucks.
Maintainer: Ilya Mashkin
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Last changed
March 6, 2013 Ilya Mashkin 1.1.5-alt1
- 1.1.5
Dec. 16, 2012 Ilya Mashkin 1.1.2-alt1
- 1.1.2
Aug. 27, 2012 Ilya Mashkin 1.0.58-alt1
- 1.0.58