From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2008-03-02T07:28:02+09:00
Subject: Re: a practical Lisp in Ruby


On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Elliott Hird wrote:

> On 01/03/2008, Kyle Brooks <anotequaltob@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is a VERY interesting idea, but why do you want to do this?
>>
>> - Kyle
>
> For a start - because it can be done ;-).
>
> For another - because I want to see what happens when you combine Lisp
> awesomeness like macros & such with Ruby's elegance and libraries. I
> am expecting an explosion of some sort.
>
> Who knows? Maybe it'll target YARV one day, and be a first-class
> citizen, just like Ruby itself.
>
> -ehird
>



Elliot-

	You may want to look at these two projects:

http://chaosforge.org/taw/rlisp/

http://bus-scheme.rubyforge.org/

	rlisp is a lisp to ruby compiler with nice lisp -> ruby integration  
that solves most of the problems you are asking about.  Bus Scheme is  
a scheme written in ruby with ruby integration.

	Rlisp is more complete but I prefer scheme to lisp myself so bus  
scheme is pretty interesting, bus scheme already runs on rubinius too ;)

Cheers-
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
-- Founder & Software Architect
-- ezra@engineyard.com
-- EngineYard.com