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Re:Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python by SlyShy on Monday November 29, 2010 @02:11PM (#1951396)
I have no clue what you are reacting to. His comment was 100% constructive criticism. Everything was a suggestion.
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Re:Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python by alnayyir on Monday November 29, 2010 @02:32PM (#1951468)
I disagree.

It was an example designed under pretty specific constraints that preclude the suggestions he was making.

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Re:Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python by eru on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @11:27AM (#1954581)
Why? Python supports functions pretty well. So adding proper support for functions, like lambdas, can be done quite metacircularly; and thus in a very short code.

If that still takes to many lines for his challenge, leave out linked lists or arithmetic. Lambdas are more important in Lisp, and you can re-create both of them as a library in the language, if you have lambdas.

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