Re:Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages
by jdmoreira on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:34PM
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Lisps have properties that are not so common in other languages:
- Homoiconicity: Code and data are the same (s-expressions)
- Lisp code is basically the AST in itself
- It's trivial to implement lisp in lisp (eval)
- Continuations (call/cc)
- Macros
- etc...
It's a truly fascinating language.
I never really did any Lisp coding outside some university projects and I still obsess and read about Scheme all the time.
- Homoiconicity: Code and data are the same (s-expressions)
- Lisp code is basically the AST in itself
- It's trivial to implement lisp in lisp (eval)
- Continuations (call/cc)
- Macros
- etc...
It's a truly fascinating language. I never really did any Lisp coding outside some university projects and I still obsess and read about Scheme all the time.