parts that are used).</p>

<h2>Future Work</h2>

<p>First, of course, there are the bugs to fix, especially including
the absence of a <b>garbage collector</b>.</p>

<p>If this compiler has any merit at all, it is in its small size and
comprehensibility.  <a
href="http://www.accesscom.com/~darius/hacks/ichbins.tar.gz" >Darius
Bacon's brilliant 385-line "<b>ichbins</b>" self-compiling Lisp-to-C
compiler</a> is much better at that, being less than one-fifth of the
size.  So one direction of evolution is to <b