You might want to check out the various Schemes that are designed to work well with C, either by compiling to it, or by being in an embedded interpreter. I'm do

You might want to check out the various Schemes that are designed to work well with C, either by compiling to it, or by being in an embedded interpreter. I'm doing that with S7 for computer music and loving it. Compile to C include Gambit, Gerbil, and Chicken, embed include Guile, S7, Gambit. (And others I'm forgetting).