Crafting a Minimal Interpreter of Lisp

Posted by ktfth on Saturday March 12, 2022 @10:15AM
from the kaeyosthaeron.com dept.

http://kaeyosthaeron.com/lisp-alternative-implementation/

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Re:Crafting a Minimal Interpreter of Lisp by bediger4000 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:21PM (#30652940)

You can't learn much from this article: it's about the trivialities of parsing lisp S-expressions in JavaScript.

Instead, read Peter Norvig's Lisp in Python (https://norvig.com/lispy.html). You'll learn about lisp special forms, and you'll see how Python can be used to great effect.

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