ich I started out
Ur-Scheme, and it turned out to be extremely successful.</p>

<p><a
href="http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~boucherd/mslug/meetings/20041020/minutes-en.html"
>Marc Feeley's 2004 talk on the "<b>90 minute Scheme to C compiler</b>"</a>
was also quite inspirational, although I didn't use any
of the techniques he discussed!  It was useful to see that a
relatively complete Scheme compiler could be written in 800 lines of
Scheme, and that the performance of the resulting C code wasn't too
terrible.</