From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T07:21:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

2006/5/25, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com>:
> I don't have ParseTree installed on my (dooky) work machine, I think
> I'll try this at home tho.
>
> But I have a question, apologies if it's obvious -- is that a
> superficial result or a meaningful result? It looks as if the magic
> missing link here is ParseTree. Can you just drop that output into a
> Lisp interpreter, badda bing badda boom?
>

You can drop it into Lisp and it'll say, "that's a nice list, but what
am I supposed to do with it?"  What needs done it to write a set of
macros to expand the Ruby ParseTree output into Lisp code which does
much the same thing. It would be my first Lisp project, but with
people shouting about how easy Lisp syntax is to manipulate, and how
it is a superset of everything already, it shouldn't be impossible to
do.

I guess the first thing to try and work out, is, which Lisp? I don't
know them well enough to tell them apart, so my pick would be GNU
CLisp which I happen to have lying around anyway. Good choice?

Douglas