Steel Bank Common Lisp
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Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a free Common Lisp implementation that features a high-performance native compiler, Unicode support and threading. It is open source software, with a permissive license. In addition to the compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp, it provides an interactive environment including a debugger, a statistical profiler, a code coverage tool, and many other extensions.[2]
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Original author(s) | Forked by William Newman from CMUCL |
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Developer(s) | Various |
Initial release | December 1999; 24 years ago (1999-12) (fork) |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Operating system | Linux, Solaris, DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Available in | Common Lisp |
Type | Compiler and runtime |
License | Public Domain, with parts covered by the MIT License and BSD License (sans advertising clause) |
Website | www |
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The name "Steel Bank Common Lisp" is a reference to Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp from which SBCL forked: Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry and Andrew Mellon was a successful banker.