On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 20:43 -0400, Nikolas Everett wrote: > From what I remember with tinkering with Lisp a while back, SBCL and > CMUCL are the big free implementations. I remember something about > GCL being non-standard. Either of those should make lisp hackers > happy.
GCL (and Clisp) are both reasonable implementations of Common Lisp. However, they are both GPL, which I think is an issue for PostgreSQL community members. CMUCL development more or less stalled out, and many of the heavyweights moved to Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL). It's kind of a joke -- Carnegie => Steel, Mellon => Bank, so Carnegie Mellon (University) Common Lisp => Steel Bank Common Lisp. :) In any event, SBCL is MIT-licensed, which is free of some of the more "annoying" GPL restrictions. BTW, I checked on XLispStat and it seems to be frozen in time -- most of the people who used to use XLispStat (including me) have moved on to R (which is GPL, unfortunately). -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
