Daniel Barlow:
He made SBCL play nicely with ILISP. He figured out how to get the
CMU CL dynamic object file loading code to work under SBCL. He
- ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL. He wrote
- code (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle
- machine-dependence and OS-dependence automatically, reducing
- the amount of hand-tweaking required to keep ports synchronized.
- He's also provided support for SBCL (as well as for free
- Common Lisp in general) through his CLiki website.
+ ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL, and then
+ continued to improve the ports. He wrote code (e.g. grovel_headers.c
+ and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle machine-dependence and
+ OS-dependence automatically, reducing the amount of hand-tweaking
+ required to keep ports synchronized. He's also provided support
+ for SBCL (as well as for free Common Lisp in general) through
+ his CLiki website.
Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
Douglas Crosher:
He continued to improve CMU CL after SBCL forked from it, creating
many patches which were directly applicable to SBCL. Notable examples
- include fixes for various compiler bugs, and a generalization
- of the type system's handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style
- (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+ include fixes for various compiler bugs, the implementation of
+ CL:DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO, and a generalization of the type system's
+ handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types.
Alexey Dejneka:
He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but
- he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and it appears
- that a lot of his fixes there and elsewhere reflect systematic
- public-spiritedness, fixing bugs as they show up in sbcl-devel or as
- archived in the BUGS file.
+ he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and more
+ in the compiler itself. It appears that a lot of his fixes there
+ and elsewhere reflect systematic public-spiritedness, fixing bugs
+ as they show up in sbcl-devel or as archived in the BUGS file.
Nathan Froyd:
He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
read without being an expert in ancient languages and so that
can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology.)
+Matthias Hoelzl:
+ He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
+
Arthur Lemmens:
- He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting SBCL
- to bootstrap under <some other Common Lisp system, which could
- probably be found in the sbcl-devel archives>.
+ He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting
+ SBCL to bootstrap under <some other Common Lisp system -- LispWorks
+ for Windows? -- which could probably be found in the sbcl-devel
+ archives>.
Robert MacLachlan:
He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to,
problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by
porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
+Pierre Mai:
+ He has continued to work on CMU CL since the SBCL fork, and also
+ patched code to SBCL to enable dynamic loading of object files
+ under OpenBSD.
+
Dave McDonald:
He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
under CLISP.
rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
Christophe Rhodes:
- He has done various low-level work on SBCL, especially for the
- SPARC port (and for CPU-architecture-neutral things motivated by
- it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous
- bug fixes.
+ He ported SBCL to SPARC, made various port-related and SPARC-related
+ changes (like *BACKEND-SUBFEATURES*), made many fixes and
+ improvements in the compiler's type system, has done a substantial
+ amount of work on bootstrapping SBCL under unrelated (non-SBCL,
+ non-CMU-CL) Common Lisps, and contributed in other ways as well.
+
+Stig Erik Sandoe:
+ He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
+ which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
+
+Brian Spilsbury:
+ He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
+ stream types and operations on them.
Raymond Toy:
He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
ported to SBCL.
Peter Van Eynde:
- He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a portable test suite
+ He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
(clocc ansi-test) which can be used on SBCL, provided a slew of
of bug reports resulting from that, and submitted many other bug
reports as well.