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It is often mentioned that translators from other language into scheme are an important point in Stallman's plans for the guile project. Already the tcl-war archive logs some arguing about that. Though scheme seems to have everything necessary to adapt elegantly to foreign syntaxes, writing particular translators seems always a non-trivial task. Are there intuitive estimates, which languages are hard to translate and thus require a brainstorming of programmers with decades of experience, and which are fairly easy? How do e.g. elisp, gcl, clisp, perl, pike, python, tcl (without tk), C, C++, Pascal, Modula, Java, Smalltalk, Javascript, Haskell, ML, compare with respect to translatability into guile? Or some pseudo-languages like sendmail, TeX, html, VB, fvwmrc, awk, sed, ...? Klaus Schilling