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This package, S-PROTOBUF, provides a Common Lisp implementation for the Protocol Buffers data encoding format, created by Google.
S-PROTOBUF supports message packing and unpacking using all the specified data types, repeated fields, and nested messages. Packed repeated fields may not quite be there yet. There is no support for Extensions or Services.
S-PROTOBUF was written by Neil T. Dantam ({first-initial,middle-initial,last-initial}@gatech.edu). Zach Beane provided some helpful suggestions to clean up parts of the code. The original Protocol Buffers design was developed internally at Google by a number of people. Current efforts seem to be led by Kenton Varda ({firstname}@google.com).
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