[cyberlync]

Its mostly about approach. LFE (literally Lisp Flavored Erlang) is Erlang with an S-expression based syntax. Joxa is a self contained Lisp that happens to run on the Erlang VM.

Those are the core differences. Joxa also has some very clear and distinct goals of its own. Those goals are not really relevant to this discussion though.

[rvirding]

Not quite, LFE is a self-contained Lisp system with all the things you would expect a lisp system to have. It has been designed to run on the Erlang/OTP system and to efficiently use all the features of that system and its VM. This means that LFE has a clean interface to Erlang/OTP so it can easily be used together with applications written in Erlang. Mixing components written in Erlang and in LFE to write a larger application is straight-forward and painless.

If I could rename it then a better name would be EFL (Erlang Flavoured Lisp), which is what it is. The "Flavoured" in the name comes from that I had earlier implemented a Lisp machines flavors system on another lisp, with an english spelling thrown in as a joke.

[oubiwann]

Oh, wow -- that's a great tidbit! I hadn't heard that before, Robert (one for the LFE Lore files ...)