Re: [9fans] lisp

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>>
wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:55:36 BST Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
>  wrote:
> > > It contains executable code but it is not an executable in
> > > the sense you don't directly feed it to exec(2).  A lisp
> >
> > in the script you gave earlier
> >       #!/usr/local/bin/cmucl -script
> >       (format t "Hello, World!~%")
> > cmucl is directly executable but that's presumably the original
> > lisp image; where is the new "core image" mentioned that makes
> > the script run quickly?
>
> cmucl is directly executable but it has only enough
> intelligence to load a big lisp.core, which contains all the
> smarts.
>
> Right, then

(format t "Hello, World!~%")

basically gets "read" then compiled then executed right?  (thinking REPL
here)

Right?  At least that's how SBCL works based on my understanding.

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