[plt-scheme] OT- why are compilers not written in scheme?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Historical baggage. Functional languages are excellent for writing compilers.
>

This is emphasized by the fact that the machine description files in
GCC have a lispy syntax. :-)

I don't have the quote at hand but this reminds be of the quotes that
states that when implementing any sufficiently complex system one ends
up implementing part of Lisp.

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