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The best Programming Language alternative to GNU Common Lisp is Hy, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to GNU Common Lisp and six of them are Programming Languages so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Programming Language alternatives to GNU Common Lisp are MIT Scheme, Steel Bank Common Lisp, Nu and newLisp.

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GCL is the official Common Lisp for the GNU project. Its design makes use of the system's C compiler to compile to...

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  1. Hy icon
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    Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.

    Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!.

    39 Hy alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Hy Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Object-oriented Language
    3.  Interpreter
    4.  Clojure

    Hy VS GNU Common Lisp

     
    • Hy is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to GNU Common Lisp.

    • Hy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNU Common Lisp.

    • Hy is Free and Open SourceGNU Common Lisp is also Free and Open Source
  2. MIT Scheme icon
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    Implementation of Scheme providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large run-time library.

    13 MIT Scheme alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows

    MIT Scheme VS GNU Common Lisp

     
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    Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler. It is open source / free software, with a permissive license. In addition to the compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp, it provides an interactive environment including a debugger, a statistical...

    11 Steel Bank Common Lisp alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Steel Bank Common Lisp Features

    1.  Debugging

    Steel Bank Common Lisp VS GNU Common Lisp

     
  4. Nu icon
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    Nu is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, with a Lisp-like syntax, it was created as an alternative scripting language to program Mac OS X through its Cocoa API.

    4 Nu alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac

    Nu VS GNU Common Lisp

     
  5. newLisp icon
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    newLISP is a LISP-like scripting language for doing things you typically do with scripting languages: programming for the internet, system administration, text processing, gluing other programs together, etc.

    4 newLisp alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris

    newLisp VS GNU Common Lisp

     
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    femtolisp is a simple, elegant Scheme dialect. It is a lisp-1 with lexical scope. The core is 12 builtin special forms and 33 builtin functions. It is fast, ranking among the fastest non-native-compiled Scheme implementations.

    11 femtolisp alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    femtolisp VS GNU Common Lisp

     
    • femtolisp is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to GNU Common Lisp.

    • femtolisp is Free and Open SourceGNU Common Lisp is also Free and Open Source
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