Editing Kyoto Common Lisp

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{{Infobox software
| name = Kyoto Common Lisp
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| author = Taiichi Yuasa, Masami Hagiya
| developer = SIGLISP ([[Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences]], [[Kyoto University]])
| released = {{Start date and age|1984|04}}
| latest release version = "June 3, 1987"
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1987|06|03}}
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| operating system = Unix, VMS, AOS
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| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Common Lisp]]
| license = SIGLISP License<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/impl/kcl/kcl/old/license.txt |title=License Agreement for Kyoto Common Lisp |access-date=2020-10-28 |archive-date=2018-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712082501/https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/impl/kcl/kcl/old/license.txt |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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'''Kyoto Common Lisp''' ('''KCL''') is an implementation of [[Common Lisp]] by [[Taichi Yuasa]] and [[Masami Hagiya]], written in [[C (programming language)|C]] to run under [[Unix]]-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to [[ANSI C]]. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in the 1984 first edition of [[Guy Steele]]'s book ''[[Common Lisp the Language]]'' and is available under a licence agreement.<ref>{{FOLDOC|Kyoto+Common+Lisp}}</ref>

KCL was implemented from scratch, outside of the standard committee, solely on the basis of the specification. It was one of the first Common Lisp implementations ever, and exposed a number of holes and mistakes in the specification that had gone unnoticed.

==Derived software==

* Austin Kyoto Common Lisp (AKCL) is a collection of ports, bug fixes, and performance improvements to KCL made by [[William Schelter]]. AKCL has been ported to a range of [[Unix]] workstations.
* [[GNU Common Lisp]] (GCL) was derived from AKCL.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/|title=GCL - GNU Common Lisp}}</ref>
* [[Embeddable Common-Lisp]] (ECL) was derived from KCL.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl|title = Embeddable Common-Lisp}}</ref>
* [[ManKai Common Lisp]] (MKCL) was derived from ECL.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://common-lisp.net/project/mkcl|title=MKCL}}</ref>
* Commercial versions of Kyoto Common Lisp were Ibuki Common Lisp<ref>{{cite web|title=Ibuki CL, a commercial version of KCL|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/impl/kcl/0.html}}</ref> and Delphi Common Lisp.

==References==
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