Re: Lisp as procedural language

From: Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Vladimir V(dot) Zolotych" <gsmith(at)eurocom(dot)od(dot)ua>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lisp as procedural language
Date: 2001-05-06 10:26:48
Message-ID: 20010506122648.A20919@l-t.ee
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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:12:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> It'd theoretically be possible to support Lisp in the same way as we
> currently support Tcl, Perl, etc. The hard part is to find a suitable
> interpreter that is designed to be dynamically linked into other
> applications. Perl still hasn't got that quite right, and I imagine
> it's an even more foreign idea for most Lisp systems...

librep for emacs-like-lisp and I remember seeing couple of
Scheme libs too (guile, cant remember more ATM) Not that I
have looked them closely.

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marko

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