Recoding Lisp programs in C

[VLD/VMB]

If the code needed to be done in LISP in the first place,
then any C translation is going to have to provide garbage
collection anyway.  I once toyed with the idea of providing
a set of C library routines to support LISPy programming,
but it seemed too weird to me.  Why not just use a good
LISP compiler instead, especially since the direct translation
into C will be much less maintainable than the LISP source.

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