Lisp as a Scripting Language in a C++ app

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Orm picture Orm · Nov 11, 2009 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

Hey, I've been looking at the possibility of adding a scripting language into my framework and I heard about Lisp and thought I would give it a go. Is there a VM for Lisp like Lua and Python or am I in the wrong mindset. I found CLISP here, http://clisp.cons.org/, but am not sure if this is what I am looking for.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer

Pillsy picture Pillsy · Nov 11, 2009

CLISP is just one implementation of Common Lisp. It's a very good implementation, and it does have some support for being embedded in other (C-based) programs, but that's not its focus and it's GPLed, which may or may not be a deal-breaker for you.

You might be interested in checking out ECL. This implementation is specifically designed to be embedded (indeed, the "E" stands for "Embeddable"!), and has numerous features that might be useful to you, including the ability to compile Common Lisp programs to C (as well as providing byte-code compilation and an interpreter).

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