μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby

Re:μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby by dmcdougall_ on Friday January 04, 2013 @07:16PM (#5010757)

My one question is: Why?

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Re:μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby by albertoavila on Friday January 04, 2013 @07:24PM (#5010780)

It's weird that this question keeps coming out in several cool but not that useful HN posts.

Some times it's cool to do things just because you can, maybe he was bored or he always wanted to implement a lisp dialect.

It might not be that useful, but i'm sure that the autor had a blast doing it, otherwise he wouldn't have done it.

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Re:μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby by fogus on Friday January 04, 2013 @08:09PM (#5010911)

But really the "why" is that it was fun. Also, it was my submission to the PLT Games. http://pltgames.com/competition/2012/12

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Re:μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby by fogus on Friday January 04, 2013 @07:40PM (#5010825)

Why not?

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Re:μLithp - a Lisp in 27 lines of Ruby by redler on Friday January 04, 2013 @08:29PM (#5010954)

To learn.

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