Re:Project Lamdu: A Live Programming Environment and Language
by lispm on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:34AM
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Lisp has various parser for language implementations. There is even a relatively complete Python implementation in Lisp.
Having Python syntax doesn't give you access to all the Python libs. Lot's of things need the Python runtime and also its support for non-Python extensions.
Literally hundreds of languages had been implemented on top of Lisp over the years. My Symbolics Lisp Machine had already in the 80s full C, ISO Pascal, Fortran, Ada and Prolog implementations written in Lisp. I was running on my Lisp Machine the original X11 server written in C and TeX written in Pascal...
Python is also not an alternative syntax on top of Racket or Lisp ... it's a different language.
Having Python syntax doesn't give you access to all the Python libs. Lot's of things need the Python runtime and also its support for non-Python extensions.
Literally hundreds of languages had been implemented on top of Lisp over the years. My Symbolics Lisp Machine had already in the 80s full C, ISO Pascal, Fortran, Ada and Prolog implementations written in Lisp. I was running on my Lisp Machine the original X11 server written in C and TeX written in Pascal...
Python is also not an alternative syntax on top of Racket or Lisp ... it's a different language.