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CMU Common Lisp vs femtolisp

A side-by-side look at CMU Common Lisp and femtolisp. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

CMU Common Lisp

CMU Common Lisp

Development

CMU Common Lisp is an open source implementation of the Common Lisp programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It features an optimizing native code compiler, a foreign function interface, and tools for generating documentation.

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femtolisp

femtolisp

Development

Femtolisp is a minimal Lisp interpreter and scripting language implemented in C. It is focused on being lightweight, customizable, and easily embeddable into other applications. It has a small memory footprint and provides basic Lisp semantics.

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