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Re:Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C by lispm on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:53PM (#12470432)
If you find Lisp to C compilers interesting, then Common Lisp has a bunch for you. The first CL to C compiler was KCL (Kyoto Common Lisp from Japan in the mid 80s). It is the parent for several other compilers.

Gnu Common Lisp, Embeddable Common Lisp, mkcl, mocl. There are also attempts at C++ as a target language. See CLASP.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/

https://common-lisp.net/project/mkcl/

https://wukix.com/mocl

https://github.com/drmeister/clasp

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Re:Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C by hellofunk on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:41PM (#12471000)
Cool, but then you have to actually deal with Common Lisp, which is not the kind of lisp that interests me. The more functional-oriented lisps like this Owl, and Clojure, are quite different in many ways from CL.
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