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Embeddable Common Lisp, a member of the *(KCL Family), is a *(Common Lisp implementation) initially developed by Giuseppe Attardi and currently maintained by *(Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll). *(ECL) is the successor to _(EcoLisp). It is a small but complete implementation which features a very small bytecode interpreter, compilation via C, generation of standalone executables and DLLs, loadable binary files, _(CLOS), _(CLX), sockets, and more... The areas that need work are <ul> <li> improving _(ANSI) _(Common Lisp) compliance (we are almost there!) <li> improving the compiler </ul> There is a <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/ecl">project page</a>. ECL runs on at least _(Linux), _(FreeBSD), _(NetBSD), _(Windows) (Using _(Mingw) and Microsoft Visual C++), _(MacOS X)/_(Darwin) (x86 and PPC) and _(Solaris) (x86 and Sparc). It supports threads on most operating systems. I compiled it using _(mingw) _(gcc) under _(win32). It seems to need _(gcc) at runtime to create fas files. _(thread)ing also works under _(win32) making it the best _(free) _(common lisp implementation) available on that platform. <!-- The tarballs have been updated regularly for all of 2009. - dherring Make sure you obtain _(CVS) or _(git) sources, since the <b>tarballs are not updated regularly</b>. Don't believe the web pages - they're not up-to-date. --> There is also a _(FreeBSD) <a href="http://www.freshports.org/lang/ecl/">port</a> to install it from and an _(X-Chat Common Lisp Plugin). A package for _(NetBSD) is available via _(pkgsrc).
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