OpenMCL is getting renamed to Clozure CL. Now that regular MCL is going to be released as open source software, this is proabably a good idea. It’s already the case that many people think that OpenMCL runs only on the Macintosh. In reality, it runs on PowerPC hardware under Mac OS X and Linux PPC, and on x86-64 hardware under Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
Anyway, OpenMCL has had a kind of proof-of-concept Cocoa-based development environment for a while now, but it’s starting to get some attention.
A demonstration version of the Clozure CL development environment for the PowerPC Macintosh is available as a double-clickable application. (There’s an x86-64 version, too, but it won’t be released until Leopard comes out.)
See the announcement.