Multiple Language Support

Tim Pierce twpierce@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu
Tue, 6 May 1997 11:25:51 -0500 (CDT)


> >You'd still have problems
> >dealing with all of those CL functions that return nil for false.
> >That's a much, much harder problem to deal with.
> 
> Yeah I forgot about that. A good argument for writing the system in
> Scheme and putting Lisp as an extra language on top :-)

For a long discussion about the difficulty (but tractability) of
implementing Lisp on top of Scheme, see the Guile mailing list
archives at <URL: http://www.cyclic.com/guile/>.