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@ -38,12 +38,14 @@ My primary inspiration for Cyclone was Marc Feeley's [The 90 minute Scheme to C
As outlined in the presentation, some of the difficulties in compiling to C are:
> Scheme has, and C does not have
>
> - tail-calls a.k.a. tail-recursion optimization
> - first-class continuations
> - closures of indefinite extent
> - automatic memory management i.e. garbage collection (GC)
>
> Implications
>
> - cannot translate (all) Scheme calls into C calls
> - have to implement continuations
> - have to implement closures