> This is an absurd overgeneralization You're right. Allow me to rephrase: in CL it is easy to write a compiler for a new language because you don't have to w

> This is an absurd overgeneralization You're right. Allow me to rephrase: in CL it is easy to write a compiler for a new language because you don't have to write a parser or a back-end. It is so easy that it is a plausible task for one person to write such a compiler and make it truly useful, and indeed there are several extant examples. In other languages it is much harder.