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Re:Little Lisp interpreter by bsder on Monday May 22, 2017 @09:19PM (#14398123)
Careful: any time someone says they built a lisp quickly, somehow it always manages to leave out the whole (a . b) cons notation.

It's amazing just how difficult that little problem makes everything.

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Re:Little Lisp interpreter by kazinator on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:08PM (#14398524)
They also leave out unwind-protect and any means to recover from an error.
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