Re: Translating *to* Lisp?

Matthew Economou <xenophon@irtnog.org> writes:


> There seems to be no lack of information on transforming Lisp programs
> into C, but what about the other way 'round? Did the various Lisp
> machines provide compilers for languages other than Lisp (e.g. C)?
>
> Curiously yours,


While not exactly what you are looking for, Richard Kelsey's 1989 Yale
PhD thesis, _Compilation by Program Transformation_, may be of some
interest. It involves a compiler with Pascal, BASIC, and Scheme
front-ends that operated by source-to-source translation and
essentially used a restricted subset of the Scheme dialect of Lisp as
an intermediate language. It looked like one might, with suitable
care, be able to execute the intermediate code in a Scheme after each
stage/pass of the compiler.


His home page at


        http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/kelsey/


includes a citation for his thesis and a downloadable version of
"Realistic Compilation by Program Transformation", a paper from PoPL
January 1989 that summarized the approach.
--
T. Kurt Bond, tkb@access.mountain.net

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