Community

• At least four new or recently invigorated projects to produce free Lisp implementations:
  • Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)
  • Open Macintosh Common Lisp (OpenMCL)
  • Embeddable Common Lisp (ECLS)
  • GNU Common Lisp (GCL)

• other free Lisp implementations continuing to develop with their customary previous vigour:
  • Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp (CMUCL)
  • If above doesn't work for CMUCL, try this.
  • CLisp (CLISP)

• This site, a popular Wiki-like web site for free CL resources grew from basically nothing and 100 daily page views at its inception in May 2000 to 8000 pages (maybe about half of them describing real free CL projects or applications; the others include navigational pages, homepages, documents, wishlists, vapourware projects, hints and tips etc) and 1-2000 page views/day in December 2003 (these numbers are ballpark at best) http://www.cliki.net/

• Project hosting service for open source Common Lisp projects: Common-lisp.net
• Two projects (overlapping marginally, different emphases) to create archives of free Lisp code along the lines of CTAN or CPAN:
  • Comprehensive Common Lisp Archive Network (CCLAN) - http://cclan.sourceforge.net/ (see also asdf-install)
  • Common Lisp Open Code Collection (CLOCC) - http://clocc.sourceforge.net/ - a source of mostly portable code for Common Lisp

• A similar project for scheme, the Comprehensive Scheme Archive Network, has been started on http://strader.xs4all.nl/csan/index.html.

• An IRC channel on the Open Projects network with about 150-200 users (at some times of day, I'm told, it has had more people connected than are in any other language-based channel on that net except C)

  irc.freenode.net / #lisp

• Vendors of commercial Lisp implementations (Franz) and Lisp-based applications (onShore) releasing significant and useful projects to the Open Source community.

• Weblogs

• Event?s and Conferences:
  • International Lisp Conference 2005
  • DS GROK LC meeting

Technical fixes for social problems: software which facilitates bringing people together.

• Cliki, the software running this site
• Climbatree, a CL version of advogato's trust metric

Pages in this topic: ALU   David Steuber   Doug Tolton   International Lisp Conference 2002   International Lisp Conference 2003   Lisp Deployment   WikiNode  

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