Actually SBCL (and other CL impls) still follow this tradition; cf. https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/ https://pvk.ca/B

Actually SBCL (and other CL impls) still follow this tradition; cf. https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/ https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-co... You can also use the new sb-simd to play around with vectorization in the interpreter. Okay you'll break something, but it's such joy while you do it. C/C++ and other "strictly-separated compilation" languages OTOH seem so dogmatic and stupid now. It's no surprise why development is no painful in the latter. Also not surprising that the world prefers them.