By the early 1980s several groups were already at work on diverse successors to MacLisp: Lisp Machine Lisp (aka ZetaLisp), Spice Lisp, NIL and S-1 Lisp.
到20世紀80年代初，幾個工作群組已經在設計MacLisp各種後繼者，例如：Lisp Machine Lisp（又名 ZetaLisp），Spice Lisp，NIL和S-1 Lisp。