[Gardeners] Taking a dive in the lisp pool...

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>> For starters, perhaps you could dig up some dirt on Kyoto Common Lisp
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> Is it still used or maintained?

KCL was picked up under contract by William Schelter from the University
of Texas at Austin somewhere around 1989 or so. Bill extended KCL into
a full common lisp called AKCL under a non-exclusive contract with IBM
Research. It formed the base language for the Scratchpad project (now
called Axiom).

Later Bill extended AKCL and it became GCL (GNU Common Lisp). It is
used as the basis for ACL2 (proofs) and Maxima (Computer Algebra).

Bill died on July 30, 2001.

Camm Maguire picked up the GCL project and carries it forward.
He is working on making GCL fully ansi compliant.

Tim Daly