python to lisp translation

Paul Rubin phr-n2002a at nightsong.com
Thu Feb 14 01:28:52 EST 2002


Justin Sheehy <justin at iago.org> writes:
> > is there a python to lisp translator out there any where?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> If there really was a good one (to either CL or Scheme) that would
> have the possibility of mollifying many of the performance-obsessed
> folks, since both of those languages have some good optimizing compilers.
> 
> However, it would be a seriously hard thing to do correctly and well.

I've been kicking the idea around for a while.  Do you see any
specific stumbling blocks?  I can see having to modify the underlying
Scheme implementation in some minor ways to get things like immutable
strings, but most of Python maps onto Scheme in a pretty natural way.



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