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From: barr@pineapple.bbn.com (Hunter Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: C vs Lisp (Lisp S/W ported to C experience)
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Date: 14 Dec 88 17:18:42 GMT
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In article <447@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
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>Can anyone tell of the reverse, rewriting some reasonably large procedural
>program into LISP, presumably for flexibility or embedding in a LISP
>environment. Some of the LISP editors might qualify.


ZETA-C, the Lisp-Machine C-compiler, works by translating C into LISP,
which is then passed to the Lisp-Machine's LISP compiler.  The man who
wrote it is Scott Layson (GYRO@KESTREL.ARPA), so he could probably
tell you a lot.
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