What is ECL
ECL stands for Embeddable
Common-Lisp. The ECL project is
an effort to modernize Giuseppe Attardi's ECL environment to produce an
implementation of the Common-Lisp language
which complies to the ANSI X3J13
definition of the language.
The current ECL implementation features:
- A bytecodes compiler and interpreter.
- A translator to C.
- A UFFI-compatible interface to C code.
- A dynamic loader.
- The possibility to build standalone executables and DLLs.
- The Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS).
- Conditions and restarts for handling errors.
- Sockets as ordinary streams.
- The Gnu Multiprecision library for fast bignum operations.
- A simple conservative mark & sweep garbage collector.
- The Boehm-Weiser garbage collector.
ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris,
Windows, running on top of the Intel, Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC
processors.Porting to other architectures should be rather easy.
The author
The original version was written by Giuseppe Attardi.
The current maintainer of ECLS is
Juan Jose Garcia
Ripoll, who can be reached at the ECLS mailing list.
We seek volunteers willing to test or improve the
implementation. We accept both code and constructive critics, so feel
free to share your toughts at the mailing list.
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