A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima

Allegro Common Lisp,  whatever the free trial is called, runs Maxima and 
runs on all the platforms.
It is not open source, and could potentially cause people grief if they 
want lots and lots of  memory.
(Remedied for a price, of course).

Raymond Toy wrote:
> Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Robert Dodier
>> <robert.dodier at gmail.com <mailto:robert.dodier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     ...In order to move FFI stuff into maxima/src we would want to make
>>     sure it works for all supported Lisps. That includes GCL at present,
>>     but it seems plausible that it might not in the not-so-distant
>>     future....
>>
>>
>> Have we identified a free, Maxima-compatible Lisp that is portable
>> across Windows/Linux/Mac and has reasonable performance?  It would be
>> really nice if it supported CFFI, obviously....
>>
>> I recall that ECL was proposed at one point, but if I remember
>> correctly, it had a fatal flaw in its handling of stack overflow,
>> which its developers didn't seem to intend to fix.  Has that changed?
>>     
> 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
>
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