Lython
What’s that, did Hell just freeze over? I didn’t see this one coming, but now it’s possible to compile lisp code to python bytecode with lython… On the website it claims that the lisp code “resembles common lisp.” I took a look at the example code fragments that are distributed with the code. It looks as if lython is just a wrapper for python, that takes lisp syntax and translates it to python syntax. And it’s only the lisp syntax that has been implemented so far, no native lisp functions (all function calls are directly translated to python function calls). But Common Lisp is so much more than just syntax, it’s a massive amount of function calls. These will have to be supported before lython becomes a useful program. Until that time, I fear that lython will be nothing more than a toy to scare your friends with on a cold winter night.