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The title of this post should be changed to "Armed Bear Common Lisp - Common Lisp on the JVM." It's an iconic name, and then people would actually know what the
by kick 7y ago
The title of this post should be changed to "Armed Bear Common Lisp - Common Lisp on the JVM." It's an iconic name, and then people would actually know what the post title was referring to.
- nothrabannosir 7y agoIt’s pedantic, but I do agree. Ahh, HN - never change. Sorry I mean, Hacker News - never change. :)
- dang 7y agoIs it so iconic? I've always referred to it as ABCL. Seems like we've had about 60 posts as Armed Bear: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22armed%20bear%20common%20lisp%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and 200 as ABCL: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=abcl&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- kick 7y agoI believed so, but I guess that the numbers don't lie.
- twic 7y agoI guessed it was Aluminium Bank Common Lisp, some kind of lightweight version of Steel Bank Common Lisp.
- tempodox 7y agoThat's actually a nice pun with a good explanation, while Armed Bear only raises questions for me. What kind of weapon would you arm a bear with? Why? Aren't bears unassailable enough as it is?
- twic 7y agoBears are most commonly armed with 87.6 mm artillery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear) It seems it's the author's brand name for software, and is a pun on the US constitution's second amendment: http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/ http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/ We may thus infer that you would arm bears because of the threat of armed bears. After all, to stop a bad bear with a gun, it takes a good bear with a gun.
- lispm 7y agoNote that the first edition of Common Lisp the Language is the 'Aluminum Book'.