The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a

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-based programming interface for creating user interfaces, i.e., graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It provides an

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(API) to user interface facilities for the programming language

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. It is a fully object-oriented programming

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, using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and is based on the mechanism of

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input and output. There are also facilities for output device independence. It is descended from the GUI system Dynamic Windows of

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' Lisp machines between 1988 and 1993. The main development was CLIM 2.0, released in 1993. It is free and open source software released under a GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). CLIM has been designed to be portable across different

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A free software implementation of CLIM is named McCLIM. It has several extensions to CLIM and has been used for several applications like Climacs, an

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-like editor. It also provides a

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-sensitive Lisp Listener, a read–eval–print loop (REPL) for Common Lisp.

Applications using CLIM

* BB1 Blackboard Kernel (BBK) * CLASP: analyzes data from experiments via graphics, statistical tests, and various data manipulation types * CLIB, a prototype interface builder for CLIM * Direct Labor Management System (DLMS), manages automobile manufacturing process system at Ford assembly plants
DLMAPS
an ontology-based spatial query language and environment, a predecessor of GeoSPARQL
GenEd
editor with generic semantics for formal reasoning on visual notations * Grasper-CL, graph management system
KONWERK
a domain independent configuration tool
Mirage
an editor for building gadget-oriented graphical user interfaces.
Pathway Tools
a comprehensive bioinformatics software package that spans genome data management, systems biology, and omics data analysis.
Petri nets
a Petri net editor and simulator
SENEX
a CLOS/CLIM application for molecular pathology
SPIKE
scheduling system for the Hubble space telescope observations. Also used fo
ASTRO-D
an X-Ray observation astronomy mission
SpyGlass
an analysis environment for viewing packet traces, from BBN.
VITRA Workbench
an integrated vision and natural language processing system
VISCO
a visual spatial query language
Climaxima
a Maxima (software) graphical front-end.
Tangram
a Tangram Puzzle Solver capable of solving arbitrary geometric tiling problems.

References

External links

* , McCLIM
CLIM 2.0 Specification
as multiple HTML pages; (McCLIM tarballs contain the specification's TeX sources) {{Lisp programming language Common Lisp Common Lisp (programming language) software