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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > I don't think g77 is really up to the job currently (though it was
> > once traditional to write Lisp and similar systems in FORTRAN, not to
> > mention the occasional OS); you probably want to get going on g95
> > development initially.
> 
> Yeah; you're right.  But I've been thinking about rewriting gcc itself
> in Scheme, but I first have to write a Scheme compiler in Perl.

OK, it's not Scheme, but there is a (toy) Lisp interpreter written in
Perl.  This is especially appropriate for this mailing list since the
project started as a reader for .newsrc.eld files.

You can check it out at:
 http://www.cpan.org/authors/Gisle_Aas/perl-lisp-0.05.tar.gz

Carl Witty
cwitty@newtonlabs.com