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authorMartin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-11 00:28:19 +0000
committerMartin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-11 00:28:19 +0000
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-CMUCL is the CMU implementation of Common Lisp. This is the 18a
-prerelease, probably the most stable version to get for FreeBSD.
+CMUCL is the CMU implementation of Common Lisp.
First-aid documentation is in the manpages lisp(1) and cmucl(1) and
via the normal Common Lisp documentation runtime functions (describe
...) (documentation ...) and (apropos ...). The WWW homepage contains
-a pointer to a real user manual adopted for 18a.
+a pointer to a real user manual.
-CMUCL's strength in comparison with other Lisp systems (or dynamic
-languages in general) is its highly optimizing compiler. If you know
-how to write efficient Common Lisp code, you are free of unwanted
-memory allocation, type checks, indirections to objects. CMUCL
-helps you to write efficient Common Lisp --- it generates very
-informative warning messages about code constructs that prevent
-compilation to efficient code.
+CMUCL's strength in comparison with other Lisp systems (or most other
+dynamic language implementations in general) is its highly optimizing
+compiler. If you know how to write efficient Common Lisp code, you
+are free of unwanted memory allocation, type checks, indirections to
+objects. CMUCL helps you to write efficient Common Lisp --- it
+generates very informative warning messages about code constructs that
+prevent compilation to efficient code.
Optional packages for graphical user interfaces and other Common Lisp
applications and libraries (Eg. the "Hemlock" Editor) are are on