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Re: Common lisp for kawa
jfgmmg@rnl.ist.utl.pt wrote:
Does anyone plans to develop a common lisp compiler for kawa? I know there
is already somme support for CL but with some limitations.
I'm just starting to look at kawa now.
The main problem with CL is that it is a large language, so getting a
complete implementation is a huge amount of work. However, if you set
a more modest goal of a useful but not complete implementation, then it
is more doable. E.g. aiming for a large subset of CLtL first edition
is relatively close. Kawa does already implement at least the basics
for many CL features, such as readtables, formatting, pretty-printing,
numeric tower, static types, symbols, packages, sequences, arrays,
and even CLOS-compatible classes.
I'd like to work on making this more usable, but I can't afford to spend
the time right now, though I can advise.
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