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- Just as I was thinking to myself that it might be fun to play around with Lisp again, this shows up in my news ticker. Coincidence?by krylon
- Hacker News always likes lisp stuff, and even though this is a very simple compiler I had a lot of fun writing it.
I started writing a different compiler, but tied myself in knots with the type-encoding, and lack of clear plan. I figured I'd step back and try a lisp, because there's a known syntax, and it is minimal.
The end result supports lists, integers, strings, characters, lambdas (with closures), and a reasonable standard library - big enough to hack up a small brainfuck interpreter along with the standard fibonacci, factorial, and fizzbuzz toy programs.
So it's a toy, but it's my toy, and maybe interesting to some!
by stevekemp