The Debian package gcl ---------------------- GCL is one of the oldest free common lisp systems still in use. Several production systems have used it for over a decade. The common lisp standard in effect when GCL was first released is known as "Common Lisp, the Language" (CLtL1) after a book by Steele of the same name providing this specification. Subsequently, a much expanded standard was adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which is still considered the definitive common lisp language specification to this day. Debian GCL now installs both the small 'traditional' lisp image designed to conform to a pre-ANSI Lisp standard, and an experimental ANSI image. Please note that ANSI support in GCL is still preliminary. On an ansi-test suite written by a GCL developer, GCL fails on a little under 3 percent of the tests. Details can be found in /usr/share/doc/gcl/test_results.gz. To toggle the use of the ANSI image, set the environment variable GCL_ANSI to any non-empty string. New in 2.6.2 ------------ Please see the RELEASE-2.6.2.html file for release note information, regression testing, and sample benchmarks. -- Camm Maguire , Wed Dec 14 18:55:19 2005