lxa@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Francois Lecouat) (01/05/89)
A friend of mine is looking for a translator from Lisp to C. Ideally it would
read CommonLisp but if necessary the code could be ported to another Lisp
first.
Jean-Marc Pageot posted a similar request recently.
I'll post a summary if there is enough interest.
Please send me email or contact Herve Lambert at
IIRIAM
2 rue Henri Barbusse
13241 Marseille Cedex 1
France
Tel: (011-33) 91 91 {7659 or 3672}
Thanks in advance.
Francois Lecouat
lecouat@cs.cmu.edu
-- geoff@endor.harvard.edu (Geoff Clemm) (01/05/89)
In article <3959@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lxa@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Francois Lecouat) writes: >A friend of mine is looking for a translator from Lisp to C. Ideally it would >read CommonLisp but if necessary the code could be ported to another Lisp >first. >Jean-Marc Pageot posted a similar request recently. Come on folks ... get serious. If you are interested in non-trivial Lisp programs, there is no such thing as a Lisp to C translator, and never will be. The best you can do is find one of the lisp systems that are written in C, and bundle that with your Lisp program. Some systems "compile" the Lisp into a more efficient form, and allow a stripped-down runtime version of the Lisp interpreter, but you can't get away from garbage collection and the need to be able to interpret functions generated at runtime. On the other hand, if your Lisp programs are trivial enough to fit conveniently into the C model, then writing a translator is equally trivial. Geoff Clemm