SBCL is 5 [via Brian Mastenbrook].
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:53:46 -0600 From: William Harold Newman To: cmucl-imp@cons.org Subject: It's alive! (SBCL, a CMU CL variant which bootstraps cleanly) I've made a system derived from CMU CL which can build itself from scratch, requiring only vanilla ANSI Common Lisp as a cross-compilation host.
If you're in the Bay area, and want to celebrate, Thomas Burdick sent the following email to sbcl-devel:
Posted by jjwiseman at December 14, 2004 10:57 AMIn case anyone here would be interested, but isn't on the BA lispniks list, the Northern California party celebrating SBCL's 5th birthday will be at 8pm tonight at Jupiters in Berkeley, CA. It'll be at least Harley and myself. I'll be there with my iBook, hopefully hacking my metacircular interpreter into sbcl. Anyone in the area is more than welcome to show up!
SBCL may be 5, but to use SBCL 0.17 w/Unicode I need CVS Slime & CVS Xemacs. I've heard of cutting edge but this is ridiculous..!
To: John Connors
What's your point? That a compiler in the Unix environment is a tool for one task in a tool chain?
Or do you have a Unicode problem in the first release (a ZERO DOT eight dot seventeen version) with this feature?
Posted by: Stefan Scholl on December 14, 2004 04:48 PMWell, with sbcl 0.8.15 you could take the tarball and use it with slime-1.0 and the latest XEmacs, and it would just work. With sbcl 0.8.17, that's no longer true - you need CVS slime & xemacs, it seems, and there is no warning on the webpage..it's a trap, I tell you! ;)
SBCL is excellent, I'm not knocking it. I luurrve it served on a bed of fresh slime.
I just wish I'd stuck with 0.8.15 for now..:(