Lisp as a Scripting Language in a C++ app [closed]

Answer 1

Try Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL).

http://ecls.sourceforge.net/

It's targeted at embedding and you get only the parts of Common Lisp linked that your scripting language needs.

Answer 2

Lisp is a family of languages.

Common Lisp is an ANSI standard that is huge. Think C++ huge. Don't use it as a script language.

Unless you are targeting fairly hardcore programmers, Lisp as a scripting language is going to be...er....not well taking. Probably. Lua is likely a better bet as a script language.

That said, a Lisp is fine(technically) for implementing a scripting language.

Answer 3

Unless you need the whole of Lisp, you may want to settle rather on a Scheme implementation like Guile which is meant to be incorporated into another program.