······@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson) writes:
| This is true of most Common Lisp implementations, but it doesn't have to be,
Yes, that's the point.
| I think that's the wrong tack to take in a discussion of scripting
| languages. You don't have to live inside Scheme, for example.
The article I was responding to was making claims about full featured
CL compilers, not tiny scheme interpreters. I was quoting Erik with
respect to the systems that he uses.
| If you want to make a tiny
| embeddable Scheme, you can do it just fine. (Check out SIOD.)
Yes, yes, I know all about siod. I like siod.