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Common Lisp Alive

Common Lisp
KindProgramming language
Appeared1984
StatusAlive
CreatorX3J13 committee
FamilyLisp
Sourcewww.cs.cmu.edu ↗

The great unification of the Lisp diaspora — CLOS, the macro system, and the condition system set the bar; SBCL keeps it fast today.

Descended from LISP
Descendants Clojure
Influenced Factor
Predecessors LISP

Common Lisp (1984) — the ANSI effort to unify the Lisp diaspora — merged MacLisp, ZetaLisp, Spice Lisp, and more into one standard: CLOS (the first ANSI-standard object system), the loop macro, format, and the condition system.\n\nSteele's CLtL is the definitive text; SBCL is the modern implementation. It remains the largest, most capable Lisp.

Sources

  1. cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp