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Exploring Lisp on the JVM

• mahmud 16y ago
  Yeah, ABCL is solid on the JVM. I am still struggling to get it on Android though.
  • astine 16y ago
    I don't know how ABCL works, but Dalvik uses it's own byte code so unless ABCL compiles to raw Java, it won't work for Android.
    • mahmud 16y ago
      ABCL has both an interpreter and a Compiler.
• brlewis 16y ago
  OurDoings, http://ourdoings.com/ http://ourdoings.com/ the photo site designed for your memories, is implemented in Kawa Scheme.
• mark_l_watson 16y ago
  In the past I have used Kawa and SISC Schemes a lot: good projects. However, Clojure has the momentum, community, etc. I wrote a Scheme book for Springer-Verlag back in ancient history and I still use Gambit-C a reasonable amount and Racket is pretty cool also. So, I am not biased against Scheme, I am just saying that Clojure might be a better place to start if you want to experiment with Lisp languages on the JVM.
• bokchoi 16y ago
  > Armed Bear Common Lisp ( www.armedbear.org/abcl.html) is a reasonably complete implementation of the Common Lisp standard, but it suffers from that the distribution can't be built unless you have another Common Lisp system installed, which may be a problem for beginners. That's not true at all. ABCL can be built with Ant.
• cageface 16y ago
  This article is like a time capsule from the pre-Clojure age.
  • gjm11 16y ago
    Well, it is from 2008. And it does mention Clojure and explains why it's not going to discuss it ("still in an exploratory beta-stage right now", which I'm guessing was true when the article was written) but says it's "definitely a project to keep your eyes on going forward". So if you meant anything other than "This article is from 2008", I think you may not be being quite fair.
    • cageface 16y ago
      It's not a criticism of the article, but the article does seem a lot less relevant now.