Sounds like bitC: https://web.archive.org/web/20160529063027/https://www.bitc-...
It was basically a lisp syntax for C, which enabled things like lisp macros. It died when the author went to work for Microsoft.
It was basically a lisp syntax for C, which enabled things like lisp macros. It died when the author went to work for Microsoft.
Years ago I came across another system, c-amplify, which was more literally a lisp syntax for C, intriguing but at the time wasn't able to get it to work. https://voodoo-slide.blogspot.com/2010/01/amplifying-c.html
A whole lot of people, including commenters on the link above, don't really get the difference between something like that and a lisp-to-C compiler. I'm not sure where the cognitive gap lies.
It was more like a proto-Rust. The Lisp-like syntax was a placeholder while the developers (plural) tried to solve language problems on a semantic level. Memory safety was their white whale. They never came up with a solution for that. The original author left because he had given up.