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CMUCL is the CMU implementation of Common Lisp. This is the 18a
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prerelease, probably the most stable version to get for FreeBSD.
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First-aid documentation is in the manpages lisp(1) and cmucl(1) and
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via the normal Common Lisp documentation runtime functions (describe
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...) (documentation ...) and (apropos ...). The WWW homepage contains
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a pointer to a real user manual adopted for 18a.
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1997-07-15 10:49:04 -04:00
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CMUCL's strength in comparison with other Lisp systems (or dynamic
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languages in general) is its highly optimizing compiler. If you know
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how to write efficient Common Lisp code, you are free of unwanted
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memory allocation, type checks, indirections to objects. CMUCL
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helps you to write efficient Common Lisp --- it generates very
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informative warning messages about code constructs that prevent
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compilation to efficient code.
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Optional packages for graphical user interfaces and other Common Lisp
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applications and libraries (Eg. the "Hemlock" Editor) are are on
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ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/binaries/ (FreeBSD-Binaries)
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and ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/ports/ (source).
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1999-05-03 02:13:27 -04:00
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WWW: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
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- Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
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