Sunday, October 3, 2010

Welcome to CLforJava

Finally, we have a blog set up. It's only taken us 8 years, but some things take some amount of aging.

For those of you who don't know, CLforJava is a project to create a new implementation of Common Lisp from the ground up and using CS undergraduates at the College of Charleston. CLforJava differs from other CL implementations that run on the Java Virtual Machine in that it is intertwined with the Java language. It's major goals are that a CL user can access any Java library via CLOS with no Foreign Function Interface needed and a Java programmer can access CL as a Java library. Since it is being built in a CS department, it has the side-effect of teaching students how to work in a development environment that mimics that of modern software engineering processes.

CLforJava is an Open Source project and under the MIT license. For more information, go to http://clforjava.org/. There you can find more information about the project in the Wiki. There is also a discussion forum you are welcome to join in as well as read several reviewed papers.

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