Portability across Lisp dialects is usually not a thing. Even Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp which are arguably pretty close rarely if ever share code.
You could make a frontend for dialect A to run code from dialect B. Those things have been toyed with, but never really took off. E.g. cl in Emacs can not accept real Common Lisp code.
I'm not arguing against the idea, I'm just curious how it would work because I see no realistic way to do it.
notpushkin|24 days ago
(I’m just trying to defend GP’s point – I’m not a heavy lisp user myself, tbh.)
larsbrinkhoff|24 days ago
You could make a frontend for dialect A to run code from dialect B. Those things have been toyed with, but never really took off. E.g. cl in Emacs can not accept real Common Lisp code.
I'm not arguing against the idea, I'm just curious how it would work because I see no realistic way to do it.