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Common myth. Many have an interpreter but compile to ASM. A couple compile to JVM - Clojure and ABCL. One, ECL, compiles to C. Writing a Lisp compiler in Lisp i
by mtreis86 5y ago
Common myth. Many have an interpreter but compile to ASM. A couple compile to JVM - Clojure and ABCL. One, ECL, compiles to C. Writing a Lisp compiler in Lisp isn't much different than writing an interpreter. See the compiler in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming for an example.
- moonchild 5y ago> Writing a Lisp compiler in Lisp isn't much different than writing an interpreter Writing a lisp compiler in lisp is a very different task from writing an interpreter. Especially if one expects to bootstrap.