Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) is an implementation of Common Lisp by Taichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in the 1984 first edition of Guy Steele's book Common Lisp the Language and is available under a licence agreement.[2]

Kyoto Common Lisp
Original author(s)Taiichi Yuasa, Masami Hagiya
Developer(s)SIGLISP (Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Initial releaseApril 1984; 40 years ago (1984-04)
Stable release
"June 3, 1987" / June 3, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-06-03)
Written inC, Common Lisp
Operating systemUnix, VMS, AOS
LicenseSIGLISP License[1]

KCL was implemented from scratch, outside of the standard committee, solely on the basis of the specification. It was one of the first Common Lisp implementations ever, and exposed a number of holes and mistakes in the specification that had gone unnoticed.

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References

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  1. ^ "License Agreement for Kyoto Common Lisp". Archived from the original on 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  2. ^ This article is based on material taken from Kyoto+Common+Lisp at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
  3. ^ "GCL - GNU Common Lisp".
  4. ^ "Embeddable Common-Lisp".
  5. ^ "MKCL".
  6. ^ "Ibuki CL, a commercial version of KCL".