KCL Family

The KCL Family is a family of Common Lisp implementations originated from the influential KCL. KCL, developed in 1984 at Kyoto University (Japan), was one of the first widely used Common Lisp systems.

Here is a hierarchy showing the dependencies among members of the family, some of which are no longer maintained:

KCL? – Kyoto Common Lisp, circa 1984 by Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya. Notable as the first 'foreign' implementation of CL by people outside the MIT/Stanford Lisp Community.
- AKCL? – Austin Kyoto Common Lisp, circa 1987 by William Schelter at UT Austin.
  - GCL – GNU Common Lisp, circa 1994 also by William Schelter.
  - ECoLisp – Embedded Common Lisp or ECL, circa ?? by Giuseppe Attardi.
    - ECL-Spain – Now renamed to ECL, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll.
- IBCL – Ibuki Common Lisp, by Richard Weyhrauch and Ibuki Inc.

Some of the above systems were commercial products. This hierarchy is intended only for historical purposes.

Pages in this topic: ECL GCL

Also linked from: Changes in June 2000 ECL-Spain Lisp History

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