From: "Jörg W Mittag" <Joerg.Mittag@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T00:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Why don't we have "C" machines? (was Re: [OT] Re: Should *most* memory be release back to the system?)

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 22/10/2007, Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:41 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>> I haven't heard of an interpreter
>>> of a procedural language written in a functional language (even an
>>> experimental, let alone useful).
>> There's Pugs:
>>
>>     http://www.pugscode.org
> Thanks for the replies, looks like I have really missed some recent stuff here.

Also, one of the first backends for the PyPy Python implementation
<http://PyPy.Org/> was a Common Lisp (actually clisp) backend, because
that was easier for testing. I mean, Lisp eats syntax trees for
breakfast, what better language would there be to bootstrap a
prototype compiler in? (-;

Looks like it was revived recently:
<http://CodeSpeak.Net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/translation.html#gencl>

jwm