Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@BRL.ARPA
From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Recoding Lisp programs in C
Message-ID: <1920@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 21:39:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1920
Posted: Sat Oct  5 21:39:49 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 05:41:38 EDT
Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA
Lines: 9

If the code needed to be done in LISP in the first place,
then any C translation is going to have to provide garbage
collection anyway.  I once toyed with the idea of providing
a set of C library routines to support LISPy programming,
but it seemed too weird to me.  Why not just use a good
LISP compiler instead, especially since the direct translation
into C will be much less maintainable than the LISP source.

Personally I think AI has been oversold.