I haven't tried it, but the description sounds delightfully perverse. And an LLM (Claude) cannot be embarrassed by perverting Lisp/Scheme with Java.

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pjmlp 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why should it?

"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." -- Guy Steele

	▲	anthk 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		RMS itself being a diehard Scheme and Elisp user said that he found Java elegant over C. This was OFC long before Go and when C++ was king in the 90's. On Java itself, when CLOS, a dog-ancient system for Common Lisp it's enough to support the Java class/method/object system by itself tells a lot on how great CL can be, even with SBCL which is the top tier free (as in freedom) interpreter/compiler out there. On performance, well, who knows; remember that PyPy itself back in the day was written in Python itself and it ran things much faster than the vanilla Python interpreter.

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brazzy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

JVM, not Java. And there's Clojure already in that space.

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anthk 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Computer Abstractions book/course for Scheme had some kind of VM written in Java where you had to write an assembler in Scheme as the final 'biggie' project.