20:57:03jcowanIf there had been a SBCL-class compiler for CL in 1987, then GCC-in-CL might have been feasible. But CMUCL was only running in MacLisp at that point.
20:58:27jcowanthe earlier compiler was running on the Perq and on MIPS machines, but was certainly not suitable for writing a general purpose C compiler in, not to mention a portable one