SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp

Rhodes, Christophe. 2008. SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp. In: Robert Hirschfeld and Kim Rose, eds. Self-Sustaining Systems. (5146) Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 74-86. ISBN 978-3-540-89274-8 [Book Section]

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This paper describes the development of an implementation of Common Lisp with the peculiarity that it is bootstrappable neither solely from itself, nor from some other language, but rather from a variety of other Common Lisp implementations. We explain the motivation for this bootstrap strategy, discuss some of the technical details involved in achieving it, and attempt to assess the technical and social effects that it has had on the development of the implementation and on Common Lisp users in general.

Item Type	Book Section
Additional Information	Presented at <span class='textit'>Workshop on Self-Sustaining Systems</span>, Potsdam, 2008
Departments, Centres and Research Units	Computing
Date Deposited	09 Mar 2014 17:21
Last Modified	29 Apr 2020 15:58