> Most truly high-level languages, like LISP (which was mentioned directly in TFA), > are interpreted, and the interpreters are almost always written in C.
While Lisp is frequently interpreted, nearly all major implementations of Common Lisp provide a compiler as well. Scheme, another Lisp dialect, also has implementations that compile to native code and/or C.
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> Most truly high-level languages, like LISP (which was mentioned directly in TFA),
> are interpreted, and the interpreters are almost always written in C.
While Lisp is frequently interpreted, nearly all major implementations of Common Lisp provide a compiler as well. Scheme, another Lisp dialect, also has implementations that compile to native code and/or C.
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