[Ecls-list] ECL and Alchemy

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll writes:

> About flash, I would say that is simply impossible. I mean, the thing
> is ECL is a low level implementation of Common Lisp using C as
> assembly language. There are lot of things done that require efficient
> compilation of the resulting code. To make a crude analogy, it is as
> if you ask whether it is possible to use Adobe's C/C++ compiler to
> compile Firefox or Emacs to flash.

IIRC (and FWIW), they managed to compile Doom to Flash. :-)

  -T.