NewLisp - Hackdot

Re:NewLisp by eddieh on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:24AM (#12660860)

I wish every programming language homepage had a small code example. I know this is a LISP-like language and I can expect it to look like any other LISP. But I still appreciate getting a glimpse of the language without having to hunt through documentation for a tutorial.

A small code example can tell you way more than a language description. An example is the PL equivalent of the picture is worth a thousand words adage.

Additionally, it is not a given that a LISP will use S-expressions. It could use M-expressions, or even G-expressions (form a LISP like language I helped develop that nobody has ever heard of).

Go, Rust, Ruby, Python all have examples on their homepage. Oddly, Swift does not.

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Re:NewLisp by hilti on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:16PM (#12662283)

If you love small code examples, then check out newLISP running inside a browser. That REPL is pretty fun.

http://www.newlisp.org/newlisp-js/

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Re:NewLisp by clamberson on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:11PM (#12662234)

Did you work on Ginger? I'd love to see what that looked like :)

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Re:NewLisp by eddieh on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:10PM (#12663577)

Yup, it was Ginger. The syntax was like a mix of Python and Scheme.

   define fib (n)
     if (= n 0) 0
     elsif: (= n 1) 1
     else: (+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)))
    
   println (fib 20)

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