Subject: Re: Lisps' popularity
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:16:36 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <JZidnUanHMKZ82rcRVn-3A@speakeasy.net>
Julian Stecklina  <der_julian@web.de> wrote:
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| Would be nice to have a subset of CL that can be used to do system
| programming. 
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You might want to look at "ThinLisp" <http://www.cliki.net/ThinLisp>:

    ThinLisp is a Common Lisp implementation that compiles to very
    efficient C code. 
    By Jim Allard and Ben Hyde. It is meant to allow deployment of
    CL-developed applications as efficient C-compiled code, and thus
    includes notable restrictions as compared to full CL semantics.
    [...such as no GC.]

Also see <http://www.thinlisp.org/whitepaper.html>


-Rob

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