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		flavio81 on Jan 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015) Lisp compilers have been written in Lisp for the last 30 years or so...

_19qg on Jan 20, 2019 [–]

The runtime for those implementations is usually written in a mix of (assembler and/or C) and Lisp.

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