On: Ask YC: An old topic, compiled vs interpreted?

[Hexstream]

Yes but CL might not be the easiest language to implement either.

[mark-t → Hexstream]

That's strange. I seem to recall watching Sussman write a Scheme interpreter in about an hour.

[Hexstream → mark-t]

Sussman is not your average guy, scheme is overall simpler than CL, implementing a compiler is harder than an interpreter.

[paulgb → mark-t]

I would think an interpreter for CL would be easier to write than a compiler. I'm not sure how CL compilation works, but with an interpreter you already have the parse tree in memory which should make scheme's cool features easier to implement.

[gnaritas → mark-t]

Really? Are you sure you didn't really just see him copy one that he'd previously written to a chalkboard in about an hour?

[eru → mark-t]

What does that say about CL?