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

On Jan 5, 2010, at 06:38, Paulo J. Matos wrote:

> 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.

"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html