From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2008-03-02T13:29:59+09:00
Subject: Re: a practical Lisp in Ruby

On Mar 1, 5:28 pm, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Elliott Hird wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 01/03/2008, Kyle Brooks <anotequal...@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 ;)

Bummer. I work from my home typically, so I don't think I can
contribute to Bus Scheme ;)