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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by ojno on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:52AM (#12778038)
Surely something more like

(how (in 'python (write (interpreter 'lisp))

:-P

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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by pavelludiq on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:07AM (#12778090)
More like:

  (howp (write (interpreter :of :lisp
                            :in :python))))
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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by mmarx on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:45AM (#12778256)
> howp

“how?” is not a predicate (i.e. something that returns a Boolean value), so it wouldn't be named howp.

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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by qubex on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:32AM (#12779701)
Somebody read the Jargon File...
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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by agumonkey on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:32AM (#12778210)
'social-problems-of-lisp
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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by vram22 on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:58PM (#12781734)
Please read the post title again.

A minimal version would be more like:

# REPL

def interpret_lisp():

    while not control_C_pressed():

        print(eval(read()))
where those functions would have to be defined, of course.

:)

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