Compiling

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ravi Teja wrote:

> This is a standard response to a rather frequent question here. But I
> am not sure I ever understood. Scheme / Lisp are about as dynamic as
> Python.

if that were fully true, it would be fairly trivial to translate Python to
scheme or lisp and compile it.

> Another standard response is "nobody felt the need or got around to
> it". And yet a number of Lisp and Scheme compilers exist when these
> languages have a much smaller user base. Am I missing something here?

an endless supply of grad students ?

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