Extending Racket with new languages

http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge/

Nicely done tutorial on how Racket can be used to write new languages, with a syntax that significantly differs from S-expressions. Apparently, it's super easy.

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C compilers tend to be better at optimizing C, at least on x86.
Compiling C to Lisp made sense on Lisp Machines as the underlying platform was build on Lisp from the ground up (from the CPU and its microcode to the language and OS).