AVR-Chat

Dennis Clark wrote:
>   Ouch.  My experience with LISP was totally interpreted, not byte-code
> compiled like Java.  Times and compilers change!

That must have been some time ago for "totally" interpreted Lisp. I'm
only aware of one Lisp that compiles to to Java-like byte code --
that's clisp. All the other Lisp implementations compile to native
machine code.

Lisp does permit one to have interpreted as well as compiled code. But
as a matter of procedure, it's just as easy to compile and load code
than use interpreted, non-compiled code.

Lastly, Lisp does have some fanciness in that you can direct things to
be done at different times: read-time, macroexpansion-time,
compile-time, load-time, and execute-time.

Kevin