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by tmtvl 867 days ago
Kawa Scheme: From the Polish word for coffee.

Gambit: Another kind of Scheme.

SBCL: Steel Bank Common Lisp, forked from CMU Common Lisp, CMU being the university named after the founder of a steel factory and a pair of bankers.

Maclisp: Created for MIT's project MAC (the Project on Mathematics and Computation).

Franz Lisp: A pun on the composer Franz Liszt.