From: Terrence Brannon
Subject: Lisp implementations which use a _Python_ compiler?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:56:50 +0000
Message-ID: <ced611f3-567d-4993-839c-1f7b8d67cf2c@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

Re: http://www.weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#install

I quote: Note that on CL implementations which use the Python compiler
(i.e. CMUCL, SBCL, SCL) you can concatenate the compiled object files
to create one single object file which you can load afterwards

But is that word _Python_ really accurate? Lisp hijacks the Python
compiler?

• Re: Lisp implementations which use a _Python_ compiler? Pillsy
• Re: Lisp implementations which use a _Python_ compiler? Vassil Nikolov

From: Pillsy
Subject: Re: Lisp implementations which use a _Python_ compiler?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:17:36 +0000
Message-ID: <13b0da6b-cb4f-4671-bab8-7c43d41b5db0@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

On Jan 4, 3:56 pm, Terrence Brannon <········@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> But is that word _Python_ really accurate? Lisp hijacks the Python
> compiler?

The compiler used by CMUCL and its descendants was called "Python"
before Guido van Rossum named his completely unrelated scripting
language.

Cheers,
Pillsy

From: Vassil Nikolov
Subject: Re: Lisp implementations which use a _Python_ compiler?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:29:38 +0000
Message-ID: <snwr6gx46v1.fsf@luna.vassil.nikolov.names>

Terrence Brannon <········@gmail.com> writes:

> Re: http://www.weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#install
>
> I quote: Note that on CL implementations which use the Python compiler
> (i.e. CMUCL, SBCL, SCL) you can concatenate the compiled object files
> to create one single object file which you can load afterwards
>
> But is that word _Python_ really accurate? Lisp hijacks the Python
> compiler?

  "Python compiler" is a homonym.  The "Lisp meaning" predates the
  "Python meaning" by a few years.  Compare
  <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Python+compiler%22+%22Lisp%22> to
  <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Python+compiler%22>.

  ---Vassil.


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