A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima

> Would CCL (Clozure Common Lisp) work?  The website says it works on
> windows/linux/mac.  I haven't run ccl in years, but it's a full CL  
> with
> commercial support.  You can get download free versions which, I  
> think,
> are not crippled in any way.
>
> I assume CFFI works with CCL, but I haven't looked.
>
> Ray

Clozure CL is probably the best bet. Version 1.4 is coming out soon  
(1.4 RC1 is already out) and there is quite some development going on  
with Windows as an important target. SBCL has some memory problems on  
windows but not much is being done about it AFAIK. Clozure CL is free  
and open source like SBCL, but it is being actively developed for  
Windows.

CFFI works great in Clozure CL, at least on Mac OS X. I don't know  
about Maxima - but I think some people on this list are running  
Maxima with Clozure CL.

If anyone wants to test it - don't use the 1.3 version but rather the  
svn trunk version.

Regards,
Ziga