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Kristian Nygaard Jensen <freeduck@member.fsf.org> writes:

>> Of course, that's for the language side, but on the implementation side,
>> I don't really know what Common-Lisp implementation we could re-use
>> (both GNU implementations are dormant, so there's no manpower for us
>> tap into).  Still: there are many Common-Lisp implementations out there,
>> so there's probably one that could work for us.
>
> Embeddable Common-Lisp (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecls/) seems
> alive, it is lgpl, so there would be no license issue

ECL's maintainer resigned last year:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.ecl.general/10264>. There have
been no releases since, and recent mailing list posts indicate that
there is no current maintainer.

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