Allegro Common Lisp is a

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with an

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(IDE), developed by Franz Inc. It is a

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of the language Lisp, a

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implementation of the language Common Lisp. Allegro CL provides the full American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Common Lisp standard with many extensions, including threads, CLOS streams, CLOS MOP, Unicode, SSL streams, implementations of various Internet protocols, OpenGL interface. The first version of Allegro Common Lisp was finished at the end of 1986, originally called ''Extended Common Lisp''. Allegro CL is available for many

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s including

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(32/64-bit), and many

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and

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, 32-bit or

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, including

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(Intel, 32/64-bit),

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(32/64-bit), FreeBSD (32-bit),

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(x64, SPARC; 32/64-bit),

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, and UTS.

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support is based on

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. It supports various external text encodings and provides string and character types based on

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2 (UCS-2). Allegro CL can be used with and without its

(IDE), which is available for Windows, Linux, and on macOS in version 8.2. The IDE (written in Allegro CL) includes development tools including an editor and an interface designer. Allegro CL can be used to deliver applications. Allegro CL is available as

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, a Free Express Edition (with some limits like a constrained heap space) for non-commercial use. Customers can get access to much of the source code of Allegro CL. Allegro CL includes an implementation of

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and an object caching database called AllegroCache. The most recent release, Allegro CL 10.1, supports Symmetric Multiprocessing. Allegro CL has been used to implement various applications: * Naughty Dog used it for the development of various video games, implementing the development environments for Game Oriented Object Lisp and

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, made for video games developed by Andy Gavin and the ''Jak and Daxter'' team at the company Naughty Dog. It was written using Allegro Common Lisp and us ...

* Allegro CL has been used to implement scheduling systems for various telescopes including the

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and the Spitzer Space Telescope

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