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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) by potta_coffee on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:38PM (#23294494)
How can one write C for example using lisp? Are you talking about compiling to C?
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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) by lispm on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:04PM (#23294765)
Sometimes people write Lisp code and use translators to C or C++. Some of that code then will be maintained in C / C++. Some of these tools were custom developed, but there existed also specialized Lisp to C translators, which produced 'maintainable' code.

For example the first version of the .net garbage collector was written in Common Lisp and then translated to C++. Since then it was maintained and enhanced in the C++ version.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150307034829/http://blogs.msdn...

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Re:Running Lisp in Production (2015) by potta_coffee on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:25PM (#23313093)
Interesting, I was not aware of this, thank you.
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