Package sbcl: Information

    Source package: sbcl
    Version: 1.0.46-alt1
    Build time:  Mar 26, 2011, 03:22 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.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    sbcl (x86_64, i586)
    sbcl-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)

    Maintainer: Ilya Mashkin

    List of contributors:
    Ilya Mashkin
    Vadim V. Zhytnikov
    vsl

    ACL:
    Ilya Mashkin
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      1. /proc
      2. /usr/bin/tex
      3. sbcl

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