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peter303 on Jan 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Corman Lisp sources are now available

I thought it might be called "clojure". And it runs on the Java Virtual Machine with easy linking to Java libraries. I have not programmed much in it to know whether it contains most of Common LISP.

jast on Jan 5, 2015 [–]

No, Clozure Common Lisp is an implenentation of Common Lisp that runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. Clojure is a different language that targets the JVM and it's very different from Common Lisp.

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