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Common Lisp is
  * a convential programming language and an AI language
  * interactive
  * a Lisp for professional use

Common Lisp CLISP
  * needs only 2 MB of memory
  * mostly implements the ANSI Common Lisp standard, as well as some
    extensions
  * can call your preferred editor
  * is freely distributable

Common Lisp CLISP provides
  * an interpreter
  * a compiler which makes execution of programs 5 times faster
  * a debugger
  * all data types with unlimited size (the size need never be declared,
    the size of lists and arrays may be changed dynamically)
  * integers of arbitrary length, unlimited floating point number precision
  * An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO.
  * CLOS, a foreign language interface, sockets, i18n, and more.

CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.

It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL,
while it is possible to distribute commercial applications compiled
with CLISP.