On: The Zimbu programming language

[Zak]

Several Scheme implementations as well as some lesser-known small Lisps qualify.

I think writing a new general-purpose language is something every programmer should try at least once, but don't fool yourself; there's probably an existing language that does what you want.

Now, back to work on that language idea I can't get out of my head involving pervasive generic functions....

[wingo → Zak]

I would like that language.

(I say, as I work on getting compute-effective-method working in Guile...)

[Zak → wingo]

I'm half-seriously considering implementing it. The basic form I have in mind is something that looks a bit like Clojure and runs on Parrot. I'm not attached to either of those ideas, but this being 2009, I think it should have some support for parallelism and access to libraries out of the gate.

[kingkongreveng_ → Zak]

chicken scheme is the only other language I can think of that compiles to C code.

He is not making an interpreted language. It compiles down to machine code that runs directly; not vm bytecode.

[_sh → kingkongreveng_]

Ikarus Scheme compiles r6rs to native code. http://ikarus-scheme.org/index.html

[jamongkad → kingkongreveng_]

Gambit Scheme does it better I think.