I think that compilers should be specially easy to write in Lisp over any other language. However in the time that most people were writing compilers no common

I think that compilers should be specially easy to write in Lisp over any other language. However in the time that most people were writing compilers no common or popular computer had enough memory to run Lisp reasonably. Even 8MB were a luxury. Now we have 2GB of RAM as the norm.