On 01/03/2008, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius / gmail.com> wrote:
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> Elliot
t :)
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>         You may want to look at these two projects:
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>  http://chaosforge.org/taw/rlisp/
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>  http://bus-scheme.rubyforge.org/
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>         rlisp is a lisp to ruby compiler with nice lisp -> ruby integration
>  that solves most of the problems you are asking about.  Bus Scheme is
>  a scheme written in ruby with ruby integration.
>
>         Rlisp is more complete but I prefer scheme to lisp myself so bus
>  scheme is pretty interesting, bus scheme already runs on rubinius too ;)

I've seen rlisp briefly and Bus Scheme too. Bus Scheme isn't really
that integrated; more Scheme than Ruby, IMO. RLisp is quite nice but
not quite perfect, IMO -- the philosophy's quite different.

My idea is a Ruby Lisp, really, not a Lisp integrated with Ruby. :)

-ehird