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From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk>
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> Does anyone know of a language implementation where the resulting code is
> machine-generated C code that is maintainable by humans?
There was at least one Common Lisp that claimed to do this.
(Chestnut, I believe.)
> If so, is the compiler free and is the language general-purpose?
No, and almost-yes.
There are some free Lisp compilers that produce code that might be
maintained by a human (e.g. GCL/AKCL/KCL, and my Franz Lisp compiler),
but maintaining it would not be ideal.
-- jeff