"The GNU people who originally wrote GCC (Stallman, et al) wanted to use Lisp; they write in C instead because it was well supported on Unix-like system." Inte

"The GNU people who originally wrote GCC (Stallman, et al) wanted to use Lisp; they write in C instead because it was well supported on Unix-like system." Interesting, did not know they wanted to use Lisp for GCC, though I've read some about Stallman's work. Edit: Makes sense, I guess. I've read that functional languages are well-suited to the domain of writing language compilers. Seems logical, because a transformation from, say, a C program to assembly or machine code, can be thought of as a function call: y = f(x) where x is the C program, y the machine code, and f the compiler :) "Stallman is a Lisper; he was on the ANSI CL committee and of course is well known for the Emacs work." True.