Steel Bank Common Lisp

Introduction

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a free Common Lisp implementation that features a high performance native compiler, Unicode support and threading.

The name "Steel Bank Common Lisp" is a reference to Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp from which SBCL forked: Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry and Andrew Mellon was a successful banker.

Usage

Compute Systems Invocation Version(s)
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) % /util/bin/sbcl 1.0.37 (default)

Notes

  1. Set the SBCL_HOME environment variable before you run sbcl: 

    
% setenv SBCL_HOME /util/sbcl/lib/sbcl/

  2. Exit sbcl with (quit) or Ctrl-d (Control d).

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bank_Common_Lisp
  2. http://www.sbcl.org