Kyoto Common Lisp
An implementation of LISP originally done by Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya at the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University as a part of the MITI led Fifth Generation Project and was released as copyrighted open source software in 1985. Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) became very influential in the LISP world, not only because a number of commercial implementers licenced the code or portions of it but also since the original Common Lisp proposal by the Department of Defence had a large number of errors in it which were fixed and notated by the Kyoto group making the Kyoto Common Lisp Report a de facto standard.
Austin Kyoto Common Lisp
Professor William Frederick Schelter (1947 ~ 2001) took the Kyoto sources and created Austin Kyoto Common Lisp in 1988 under contract with IBM to port it to the RT PC and IBM 370 AIX, but that was later the first release of the codebase that ran under OS/2 and AIX also released for sundry UNIX based systems and eventually even DOS. Schelter later used AKCL as the basis for mathematical program Axiom. Because of licensing issues AKCL was not released as a single package but as a add on package to the June 1987 KCL source release.
GNU Common Lisp
However after an initial spurt of development there has been little work done on the system in the last few years.
Versions
- Kyoto Common Lisp
- June 1987 Source release (last known version)
- GNU Common Lisp
- GCL 2.6.12 (2014-10-28)
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License
- Kyoto Common Lisp is copyrighted open source software and while it permitted to distribute the source for personal and academic use, other forms of usage require an explicit permission from the authors.
- GNU Common Lisp is released under the GPL v3
Publications
- Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya: Kyoto Common Lisp Report - 1985
Authors and publishers
- Kyoto University
- Taiichi Yuasa (Original author)
- Masami Hagiya (Original author)
- University of Texas
- IBM
- William Frederick Schelter
- Gregory R. Siebers et al.
- Free Software Foundation