A modest proposal

[Marco Antoniotti]

"Ben Wolfson" <wolfson at uchicago.edu> writes:

> In article <3BF49DE9.95DC02FA at earthlink.net>, "Hans Nowak"
> <wurmy at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > Aight, here's a wild-assed idea, unrelated to the proposal... since
> > Python
> > and Lisp are both dynamic languages, would it be possible to write a
> > Python-to-Lisp translator, and then compile the Lisp code using one of
> > those efficient Lisp compilers?
> 
> I've often thought that would be a neat project, but I don't know any
> Lisp and hardly any Scheme.
> 

Time to learn: http://www.alu.org.  Common Lisp has very good
compilers both commercial and free (CMUCL - http://www.cons.org - is
Public Domain).

Cheers

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