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femtolisp vs Steel Bank Common Lisp

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

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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Steel Bank Common Lisp

Steel Bank Common Lisp

Development

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance open source Common Lisp compiler and runtime system. It is used for developing complex, multi-platform applications and is known for its stability and speed.

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