LispWorks

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LispWorks
Developer(s) LispWorks Ltd
Stable release 7.0 / May 5, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-05-05)
Operating system Microsoft Windows (x86/x64), Mac OS X (x86/x64), Linux(x86/x64, ARM), FreeBSD (x86/x64), Solaris (x86/x64 and SPARC), and AIX (POWER), Android, IOS
Type IDE
Website www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html

LispWorks is a commercial implementation and Integrated Development Environment for the Common Lisp programming language. The software runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Linux (ARM and Intel), FreeBSD, Solaris (x86/x64, SPARC) and AIX. A runtime version for Android and IOS is available.

LispWorks was developed by the UK software company Harlequin Ltd., and first published in 1989.[1] Harlequin ultimately spun off its Lisp arm as Xanalys, which took over management and rights to LispWorks. In January 2005, the Xanalys Lisp team formed LispWorks Ltd. to market, develop, and support the LispWorks software.

Some of LispWorks's features are

  • a native-code compiler and an interpreter for an extended ANSI Common Lisp
  • an implementation of the Common Lisp Object System with support for the Metaobject protocol
  • support for 32bit and 64bit versions
  • native threads and symmetric multiprocessing
  • Unicode support: it can read and write Unicode files and supports strings encoded in Unicode
  • Foreign Language Interface (FFI) for interfacing with routines written in C
  • a Java interface
  • the Common Application Programmer's Interface (CAPI) GUI toolkit, which provides native look-and-feel on Windows, Cocoa, GTK+ and Motif
  • an Emacs-like editor (source code is included in the Professional edition)
  • a Lisp Listener,[2] which provides a Common Lisp Read Eval Print Loop
  • a graphical debugger, inspector, stepper, profiler, class browser, etc.
  • a facility to generate standalone executables and shared libraries. To reduce memory size, a tree shaker can be used to remove unused code and data.
  • on Mac OS X it provides a bridge to Objective-C for using Apple's Cocoa libraries
  • many of the libraries are written using the Common Lisp Object System and can be extended by the user (by writing subclasses and new methods)

The Enterprise edition also includes KnowledgeWorks, which supports rule-based programming (including support for Prolog); the CommonSQL database interface; and a CORBA binding.

In September 2009, it had been announced that LispWorks 6 would support concurrent threads and the CAPI graphics toolkit has been extended to support GTK+.[3] LispWorks 6.1, released in January 2012,[4] includes many further enhancements to CAPI, such as support for anti-aliased drawing.

LispWorks ran on the spacecraft Deep Space 1. The application called RAX won the NASA Software of the Year award in 1999.[5]

Releases

  • 1987, development of LispWorks started by the British company Harlequin
  • 12 September 1989, Harlequin LispWorks 1.0, GUI with CLX, CLUE and LispWorks toolkit
  • December 1991, Harlequin LispWorks 3.0
  • 17 March 1997, Harlequin LispWorks 4.0 for Windows, GUI with CAPI
  • 6 January 1999, Harlequin LispWorks 4.1, with CORBA
  • 19 February 2001, Xanalys LispWorks 4.1.20
  • 19 December 2001, Xanalys LispWorks 4.2, no runtime fees for applications on Microsoft Windows
  • 5 May 2002, Xanalys LispWorks 4.2.6
  • 30 June 2003, Xanalys LispWorks 4.3, first release for Mac OS X, with Cocoa support
  • 8 December 2004, Xanalys LispWorks 4.4
  • 15 April 2005, LispWorks Ltd LispWorks 4.4.5
  • 31 July 2006, LispWorks Ltd LispWorks 5.0
  • 27 March 2008, LispWorks Ltd LispWorks 5.1
  • 6 January 2010, LispWorks Ltd Lispworks 6.0, with symmetric multiprocessing
  • 27 January 2012, LispWorks Ltd LispWorks 6.1
  • 5 May 2015, LispWorks Ltd LispWorks 7,[6] ARM Linux, iOS, Android, full Unicode, Hobbyist Edition

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ The Listener, LispWorks 7.0, LispWorks IDE User Guide
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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