22 Jun
2021
22 Jun
'21
12:40 p.m.
On 2021-06-21 3:47 p.m., Rich Alderson wrote:
Lisp is evaluated, not compiled from what little I have read.
If I could read the papers (for free) I could know more.
Refal "Recursive functions algorithmic language" from Russia
looks just what I was looking for. Around since 1966.
Ben.
Date: Sun, 20
Jun 2021 22:19:02 -0600
From: ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
LISP still can't be compiled.
May I respectfully suggest that you don't know WTF you're talking about?
LISP compilers have existed for decades. One of the *early* MIT AI Lab papers
by Guy Steele is a comparison of the compiler for MACLISP (the Project MAC
dialect of Lisp, nothing to do with Apple computers) with the then current
FORTRAN compiler for the PDP-10 (called "F40"), in which the LISP compiler
generated better code than the FORTRAN compiler.
Things have not degenerated since then.
Rich