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Re:LispY C by TeMPOraL on Friday May 13, 2016 @07:02AM (#11689672)
C-Mera[0] is also worth looking at. It's a Lisp-to-C-like source-to-source compiler. They're doing pretty neat stuff with that wrt. high-performance graphics[1]. On this year's European Lisp Symposium there was a demonstration of using this to generate and simultaneously test a graphics filter on many different architectures with many different optimizations to determine which works best on what. The video of the talk should be available next week.

[0] - https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera

[1] - https://github.com/kiselgra/cm-fop

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Re:LispY C by eggy on Friday May 13, 2016 @01:04PM (#11691600)
Wow, that does look interesting, and one file has over 16K LOC, when compared with the <1.5K LOC of the OP's Lispy C. Both seem to let you code in SEXPRs in a very C-looking style. Others are raising Lisp to C solutions like ECL, but I have not really seen the C output of ECL, and you program ECL in Lisp. With C-Mera or Lispy C you are sort of writing in C with parentheses. At least that is how it looks to me. I have used Gambit-c and CHICKEN scheme before without really touching the C they output.
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