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A comment on Show HN: L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic programming language.

Re:Show HN: L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic progr... by pavlov on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:35PM (#14529086)
Is there a runtime at all? It seems to me there isn't.

Would it be unfair to say this is a Lispy evolution of the oldschool macro assembler?

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Re:Show HN: L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic progr... by murisitarusenga on Sunday June 11, 2017 @01:48AM (#14530821)
I'm not sure of the exact definition of a runtime... The best I can say is that the instructions emitted by the compiler correspond directly to the commands in the source file.

You are certainly correct about the Lispyness. I've not yet had the opportunity to use a macro assembler, so I cannot say how similar L2 is to it. To aid your comparison, I think L2 is also quite similar to B language.

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