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CLISP

An ANSI Common Lisp implementation

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GNU CLISP is an implementation of the ANSI Common Lisp standard (INCITS 226-1994 (R1999)), providing a programming environment for Common Lisp. It can be used as a login shell in place of bash, zsh or tcsh, and is available through Linux distribution packages, BSD ports, Mac package managers and Cygwin.

The project documents its implementation notes covering how it implements and extends the ANSI standard, along with a manual page for UN*X command line options. It includes a FAQ list, a NEWS section, and a Mercurial source tree for development. The current version is 2.49 (2010-07-07).

CLISP is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License or the GNU Free Documentation License, with no paid editions or plans indicated.

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