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Re:Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell (2006) by jcynix on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:06PM (#32842644)
Nice. The first Lisp interpreter whose source code I was able to dissect (as a student, source code generously provided by my professor), was the Lispf3 interpreter written in (gasp ;-) Fortran.

http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/uppsala/No...

Sidenote: the garbage collector was in file garb.f (IIRC) and I lost this file soon when I did a "rm garb" to clean up my account on the BSD VAX where I kept it. But still have the line printer output :-)

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Re:Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell (2006) by jlg23 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @05:02PM (#32843305)
Awesome, thanks for the link. I'll probably use that as a response whenever someone complains about compilation/setup being too complicated - the compilation instructions on page 4 should give them a proper baseline ;)
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