On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Attila Lendvai <attila.lendvai@gmail.com> wrote:

> There was an ECL port attempt but I didn't track it too closely
> lately I remember vaguely that a few scheme would be available and I
> thing CCL is also in the picture. I'd rather talk for MKCL if you
> don't mind.

not at all, especially if i understand correctly ECL is unmaintained
and MKCL is an alive fork.

You are probably too hard on ECL (at least somewhat).

But you are right that MKCL is alive and I would even add that it
is moving pretty fast under the public surface...

>> is mkcl viable to run as a native app both on iOS and android?
>
> right now it is not, period. But it is on my list of things to do
> any month now. As soon as I get the ffi to be C99-complete as I
> say, and that I am done with the proper interface to the
> "environment" (that CLTL2 thing, you know) I will get right to it.

porting to android sounds like a fun project. see you on mkcl-devel... :)

Well, you may have a few difficulties subscribing to mkcl-devel since

common-lisp.net is currently going through yet another great shake up.

The mailing lists are back under mailman control again but I have not

taken time to update the MKCL web page about it. Here is the link

that I should put back:

http://mailman.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mkcl-devel

FTR, there's this commercial lisp:

https://wukix.com/mocl

and this thread with some comments of interest:

http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1lemlk/best_lisp_repl_for_android_tablet/

and then there's probably the most viable:

http://gambitscheme.org/

Yes, Gambit-C by Marc Feeley is the scheme I had most in mind but

I wasn't sure enough of my memory to spell it out.

especially this project based on gambit. after a very cursory search,
this seems to be the most inviting/interesting without actually trying
it:

http://www.lambdanative.org/

Looks impressive! Thanks for the hint.