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Spice Lisp was at one point in time just renamed to CMU CL. It was still the same project.

• varjag 3y ago
  Sure but it wasn't even a Common Lisp initially. I see there are still comments attributing to Spice project in CMUCL source. But it's hard to make how much of the code is still original. E.g. reader is one of those files but it certainly seen major rework, seeing all the unicode support and whatnot.
  • lispm 3y ago
    > Sure but it wasn't even a Common Lisp initially. Right, initially it started as a Maclisp derivative. They morphed it gradually into Common Lisp, while defining Common Lisp. The Spice Lisp project was actively involved in defining & implementing Common Lisp. Two of the five members of the original designers of CL were at CMU: Steele and Fahlman. The others were Moon, Weinreb, Gabriel.
    • pfdietz 3y ago
      All still alive except for Weinreb. He was the youngest of them, I think.
      • lispm 3y ago
        He got ill and died too early. I've met him once at a Lisp meeting here in town.