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| 3 | <meta name="author" content="Peter Graves"> |
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| 4 | <meta name="description" content="Armed Bear Common Lisp"> |
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| 5 | <meta name="keywords" content="Armed Bear Common Lisp, ABCL, Common Lisp, Java, open source, GPL"> |
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| 12 | <center> |
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| 13 | <h1>Armed Bear</h1> |
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| 14 | <i>The right of the people to keep and arm bears shall not be infringed!</i> |
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| 20 | <font face="sans-serif" size="4"> |
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| 21 | <b>About ABCL</b> |
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| 24 | <p> |
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| 27 | Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) is an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp |
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| 28 | that runs in a Java virtual machine. It provides a runtime system, a |
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| 29 | compiler that compiles Lisp source to JVM bytecode, and an interactive |
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| 30 | REPL for program development. |
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| 31 | <p> |
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| 32 | ABCL is distributed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public |
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| 33 | License</a>, with a special linking exception. If you link ABCL with your |
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| 34 | own program, then you do not need to release the source code for that |
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| 35 | program. However, any changes that you make to ABCL itself must be |
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| 36 | released in accordance with the terms of the GPL. |
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| 37 | <p> |
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| 38 | ABCL runs on platforms that support Java 1.4 (or later), including Linux, |
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| 39 | Windows, and Mac OS X. |
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| 40 | <p> |
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| 41 | ABCL is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. |
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| 42 | <p> |
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| 43 | The latest version is 0.0.10, released March 6, 2007. |
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| 44 | </dd> |
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| 48 | <font face="sans-serif" size="4"> |
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| 49 | <b>Download</b> |
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| 52 | <dd> |
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| 53 | <a href="http://armedbear.org/abcl-0.0.10.tar.gz">abcl-0.0.10.tar.gz</a> |
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| 54 | (source, 632987 bytes) |
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| 55 | <p> |
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| 56 | <a href="http://armedbear.org/abcl-0.0.10.zip">abcl-0.0.10.zip</a> |
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| 57 | (source, 1012345 bytes) |
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| 58 | </dd> |
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| 59 | </dl> |
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| 61 | <p> |
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| 63 | <b>CVS</b> |
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| 66 | <dd> |
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| 67 | The project's SourceForge.net CVS repository can be checked out through |
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| 68 | anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following command: |
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| 69 | <pre> |
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| 70 | cvs -d:cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@armedbear-j.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/armedbear-j co j |
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| 71 | </pre> |
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| 72 | </dd> |
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| 73 | </dl> |
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| 77 | <b>Bugs</b> |
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| 80 | <dd> |
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| 81 | ABCL is a young implementation (particularly by Lisp standards). You |
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| 82 | are certain to encounter bugs. |
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| 83 | <p> |
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| 84 | ABCL 0.0.10 fails 67 out of 21696 tests in the GCL ANSI test suite. |
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| 85 | <p> |
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| 86 | ABCL's CLOS is intolerably slow and does not handle on-the-fly |
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| 87 | redefinition of classes correctly. There is no support for the long |
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| 88 | form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION, and certain other required CLOS |
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| 89 | features are also missing. Enough CLOS is there to run ASDF and |
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| 90 | CL-PPCRE, if you're in no hurry. There's no MOP worth mentioning. |
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| 91 | <p> |
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| 92 | Since this is an early public release, there might be build problems as |
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| 93 | well as runtime bugs. |
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| 94 | <p> |
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| 95 | Please report problems to the <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/armedbear-j-devel">j development mailing list</a> |
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| 96 | (you must be subscribed to post). |
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| 97 | </dd> |
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| 98 | </dl> |
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| 100 | <p> |
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| 101 | <font face="sans-serif" size="4"> |
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| 102 | <b>Installation</b> |
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| 105 | <dd> |
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| 106 | The README file in the root directory of the source distribution contains |
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| 107 | instructions for building ABCL. |
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| 108 | <p> |
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| 109 | Java 1.4 or later is required. |
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| 110 | <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp">Java 1.5</a> |
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| 111 | is recommended. There are |
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| 112 | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070218045318.5111%40stephen"> |
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| 113 | unresolved performance issues</a> with Java 1.6. To build ABCL, you'll need |
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| 114 | the full JDK; the JRE is not enough. </dd> |
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