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I'm not really interested in getting involved with this discussion, but I think I might make some comments to see if it cools things at all. Wouldn't your argument be more precisely that Lisp implementations as they exist today are dependent on low-leveler languages (such as Ada, Fortran, C, C++, or assembly) for bootstrapping. Loko Scheme as mentioned earlier is bootstrapped on nothing but assembly, and the author writes drivers and such in their implementation. There are also a few lower-level Lisp implementations like Scopes, Bone, and Carp; there's nothing inherent about Lisp which says it has to be meaningfully "higher floor" than Ada. I could see someone making the argument that due to C's momentum that to program real programs today you need to interact with it, but I don't think this is anything inherent about the language.