for SBCL (as well as for free Common Lisp in general) through
his CLiki website.
+Robert E. Brown:
+ He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches,
+ especially improving removing gratuitous efficiencies in the
+ standard library.
+
Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
including the implementation of EQUALP hash tables for CMU CL;
and elsewhere reflect systematic public-spiritedness, fixing bugs
as they show up in sbcl-devel or as archived in the BUGS file.
+Paul Dietz
+ He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite for the
+ requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Already, at the
+ halfway stage, it has caught many tens of bugs in SBCL, and provided
+ simple test cases for them.
+
Nathan Froyd:
He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
Espen S Johnsen:
He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
+Frederik Kuivinen:
+ He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
+
Arthur Lemmens:
He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting
SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows
updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
+Kevin M. Rosenberg:
+ He provided the ACL-style toplevel, and a number of MOP-related bug
+ reports.
+
Christophe Rhodes:
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.
+ improvements in the compiler's type system, has essentially
+ completed the work to enable 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