ccl VS sbcl

Compare ccl vs sbcl and see what are their differences.

sbcl

Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository (by sbcl)
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ccl sbcl
18 59
814 1,766
2.0% 1.0%
7.3 9.9
1 day ago 5 days ago
Common Lisp Common Lisp
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ccl

Posts with mentions or reviews of ccl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-28.
  • Don't Invent XML Languages (2006)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2024
    There's plenty of history of s-expression formats for documentation. One example is: https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/tree/master/doc/manual

    But, also, there's plenty of uses of XML that are not "artcles and books". For example, Maven's pom.xml and log4j2.xml.

  • The IDEs we had 30 years ago and we lost
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023
    The descendant of CCL runs on modern Intel Macs. (It also runs on Linux and Windows but without the IDE.) The modern IDE is quite a bit different from the original. In particular, it no longer has the interface builder. But it's still pretty good. It is now called Clozure Common Lisp (so the acronym is still CCL) and you can find it here:

    https://ccl.clozure.com/

    If you want to run the original that is a bit of a challenge, but still possible. The original was never ported directly to OS X so you have to run it either on old hardware or an emulator running some version of the original MacOS, or on an older Mac running Rosetta 1. In the latter case you will want to look for something called RMCL. Also be aware that Coral Common Lisp was renamed Macintosh Common Lisp (i.e. MCL) before it became Clozure Common Lisp (CCL again).

    This looks like it might be a promising place to start:

    https://github.com/binghe/mcl

    If you need more help try this mailing list:

    https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel

  • The Saga of the Closure Compiler, and Why TypeScript Won
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
  • Clozure CL 1.12.2
    1 project | /r/Common_Lisp | 10 Aug 2023
    Download: https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/tag/v1.12.2
  • plain-common-lisp: a lightweight framework created to make it easier for software developers to develop and distribute Common Lisp applications on Microsoft Windows
    4 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 6 Jul 2023
    I was not aware that UIOP provided that function. plain-common-lisp used to be implemented with Clozure CL but eventually moved to SBCL due to the lack of maintenance of CCL. But now there is a hard dependency on SBCL.
  • Clozure Common Lisp Wiki
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 12 Jan 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2023
  • Consuming HTTP endpoint using Common Lisp
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2022
    I have decided it is time to have some fun and use Common Lisp to create algorithm representation that deals with parallel execution. For this I decided to use Clozure common lisp, put basic Qucklisp there and load some libraries to do this.
  • The Origins of Lisp
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2022
    Lisp must be read outside->in to understand what it is saying. Given (foo (a) (b c)), if you don't know what foo is and just start reading (b c), which is inside, hoping that later you can work out what is foo, you could be going down a blind alley. foo could be a macro or special operator which entirely controls what (b c) means.

    To understand what is calculated in Lisp, given that you understand what the syntax means, the evaluation is inside->out.

    That's no different from math. In any languages that have math-like nested expressions with bracketing, you have inside-out evaluation.

    The alternative are catenative languages and such, which have never been mainstream.

    There are assembly languages which go line by line.

    Imperative languages with statements and expressions tend to have small expressions where evaluation is followed inside-out; the rest of the control flow is just top down, with some forward and backward skips.

    Lisp has all of the above in it. Lisp can be assembly language. For instance, in thsi source file from Clozure Common Lisp:

    https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/blob/master/level-0/ARM/arm-h...

      (defarmlapfunction fast-mod-3 ((number arg_x) (divisor arg_y) (recip arg_z))
  • Corman Lisp development environment for MS Windows
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022

sbcl

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbcl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ccl and sbcl you can also consider the following projects:

sketch - A Common Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction, and more.

abcl - Armed Bear Common Lisp <git+https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/> <--> <svn+https://abcl.org/svn> Bridge

lisp-interface-library - LIL: abstract interfaces and supporting concrete data-structures in Common Lisp

sb-simd - A convenient SIMD interface for SBCL.

data-lens - Functional utilities for Common Lisp

BQN - An APL-like programming language. Self-hosted!

plain-common-lisp - A trivial way to get a native Common Lisp environment on Windows

cl-ppcre - Common Lisp regular expression library

land-of-lisp-using-hunchentoot - Convert code for "Dice of Doom" from Barski's "Land of Lisp" to use Hunchentoot web server.

maiko - Medley Interlisp virtual machine

sketch - AI code-writing assistant that understands data content

seed7 - Source code of Seed7