I am writing a compiler in Scheme. And it is an extremely pleasant language to writing a compiler in.
There are also very few Scheme compilers that are *not* written in Scheme. -Patrick On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Hugh Aguilar <hughaguila...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Are there any other compilers written in Scheme? From what I've learned > about Scheme so far, it seems like a pretty good language for writing a > compiler. The books that I've read on compiler-writing assume C or Pascal > (or Java for ANTLR) --- but I haven't seen any using Scheme or Lisp. Of > course, Scheme/Lisp have always been used for writing a DSL inside of a > program (as Dmitry is doing in Racket, and has often been done in Forth), > but what I'm referring to here is cross-compiling to a processor target --- > not just putting a syntax-layer on top of an existing Scheme system. >
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