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Yeah, the runtime for GOAL was much closer to C/C++ than LISP. The pre-processor was pretty much a full Scheme implementation, and had all kinds of dynamic cons cell allocations and garbage collection, but not the generated code itself.

(In fact, C and GOAL code almost used the same ABI. IIRC, GOAL always had the GP(?) register pointing at the symbol table for fast access, but gcc MIPS code expected it to be something else. If you wanted to be able to call back and forth, you had to write tiny shim functions).