[lispfaq-cvs] CVS update: lispfaq/freelisp.xml

[Christophe Rhodes]

Update of /project/lispfaq/cvsroot/lispfaq
In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv15776

Modified Files:
	freelisp.xml 
Log Message:
clisp's clos is more-or-less complete

link to Maxima and Axiom from gcl

sbcl runs on many unix and unix-like systems

Date: Tue Mar 23 07:08:04 2004
Author: crhodes

Index: lispfaq/freelisp.xml
diff -u lispfaq/freelisp.xml:1.3 lispfaq/freelisp.xml:1.4
--- lispfaq/freelisp.xml:1.3	Tue Mar 23 05:11:47 2004
+++ lispfaq/freelisp.xml	Tue Mar 23 07:08:04 2004
@@ -14,11 +14,8 @@
           <para>
             A lightweight common lisp interpreter and compiler, which
             compiles to bytecode, and runs on Windows, AmigaOS,
-            Acorns, OS/2 and most flavours of Unix. CLISP's
-            implementation of CLOS is currently <ulink
-            url="http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#clos-diff">not
-            quite complete</ulink>. CLISP is licensed under the GNU
-            GPL.
+            Acorns, OS/2 and most flavours of Unix. CLISP is licensed 
+	    under the GNU GPL.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -74,8 +71,11 @@
             times have let it see more developments towards supporting
             the ANSI Common Lisp standard. It cannot (yet) be
             recommended as a Common Lisp, but it is still useful for
-            running software written for it (primarily Maxima). GCL is
-            licensed under the GNU LGPL.
+            running software written for it (primarily <ulink
+            url="http://maxima.sourceforge.net/">Maxima</ulink> and
+            <ulink
+            url="http://www.nongnu.org/axiom/index.html">Axiom</ulink>).
+            GCL is licensed under the GNU LGPL.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -112,10 +112,10 @@
           <para>
             SBCL is a fork from CMUCL aimed at improving the
             maintainability by removing the bootstrapping issues
-            involved in recompiling. Currently it runs on x86/Linux,
-            x86/FreeBSD, PowerPC/Linux, MacOS X, MIPS/Linux,
-            HPPA/Linux and Alpha/Linux. SBCL is licensed in a similar
-            fashion to CMUCL.
+            involved in recompiling.  It runs on many Unix and
+            Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X). SBCL is licensed
+            in a similar fashion to CMUCL: mostly in the Public Domain, 
+            with some BSD-like and MIT-like portions.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>