| | 1 | = Naming History = |
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| | 3 | In 1984, Coral Sofware began development of a Common Lisp for the Macintosh, called Coral Common Lisp (CCL). Three years later, CCL 1.0 was released. |
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| | 5 | It was renamed to Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp (MACL) later in 1987 when it was jointly marketed with Franz Inc. |
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| | 7 | Apple Computer took over in 1988 and called it Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL). Digitool took over MCL in 1994. |
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| | 9 | Gary Byers forked the code in 1998 when he ported it to Linux while working for JPL. This fork was called OpenMCL when Digitool open sourced it in 2001. |
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| | 11 | Digitool announced in 2007 that MCL will be open sourced. Partly to avoid confusion with open-sourced MCL, Clozure renamed OpenMCL to Clozure CL. |
