[coyotos-dev] Accept GCJ into the tool chain?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 22:18 -0500, Haplo wrote:
> Lisp is interesting, but running it would generally require either  
> emulation or a new compiling scheme (no pun intended, but note that  
> this would remove a lot of the multi-functionality of lisp meta- 
> code). Interesting, but a little too abstract for my tastes. Also,  
> the fact that code and data in lisp are interpreted the same could  
> make for some unintentional bugs involving the interpretation of  
> symbols.

Worse than that, when combined with mutability this makes program
analysis flatly impossible. The presence of "eval" is an active
dissaster.