Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 06:37:39 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Dave Love <d DOT love AT dl DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is there a lisp compiler for djgpp?
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On 13 Nov 1996, Dave Love wrote:

> >>>>> "Alaric" == Alaric B Williams <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 
>  Alaric> "Chris A. Triebel" <cat AT sun4 DOT iol DOT unh DOT edu> wrote:
>  >>> I am looking for a lisp compiler that either producess C++ code that works
>  >>> under djgpp, or produces object code that can be linked with djgpp code?
> 
>  Alaric> To generalise, what replacement front ends are available for gcc?
> 
>  Alaric> GNAT      (ADA)
>  Alaric> CC1       (C)
>  Alaric> CC1PLUS   (C++)
>  Alaric> ?
> 
> Objective C, C State Transformers (maybe not distributed), Fortran
> (G77), Pascal, Modula3, (Java bytecode in the works)...  I'd be
> surprised if there was a Lisp frontend as such.  Some systems which
> compile through C take advantage of GCC extensions in significant
> ways.
> 

You'll probably note that there's a GPL'ed Lisp implementation out there
called GCL -- GNU Common Lisp.

I have it on my Linux box (it came with the distribution), but since the
closest I get to Lisp is pressing buttons on my XEmacs powerbar... I have
no way of knowing how complete it is...

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