Comment by p_l

4 hours ago

There's another wordplay in the name.

Namely, that "SB" stands for "Sanely Bootstrappable" - something that the CMU Common Lisp was unable to do

In my first job, grumpy Martin had as one of his many indispensable tasks, to build cmucl. (Itasoftware, one of the main lisp shops of the age)