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tré – Lisp transpiler – compiles to Common Lisp (SBCL), JavaScript and PHP.

Overview

This is tré, a metamorphic Lisp transpiler. It can generate Common Lisp (SBCL), JavaScript (for browsers and node.js) and PHP code.

tré has been used in real life business for a couple of years and is now cleaned up for the public.

tré has been developed since 2005 by Sven Michael Klose [e-mail].

Building and installing

Make sure you have sbcl (Steel Bank Common Lisp) installed. Then, simply run:

./make.sh boot
./make.sh install

Invokation

The installed binary is named "tre". It takes an optional pathname of a source file to compile and execute. If none is specified, it'll prompt you for expressions to execute.