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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by basyt on Saturday May 31, 2014 @07:30AM (#7825808)
Nobody's heard of Hy then?

https://github.com/hylang/tryhy

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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by agentultra on Saturday May 31, 2014 @02:19PM (#7826739)
The only problem with Hy is that it's not, technically, a Lisp: it's Python with a Lisp syntax so that you can programmatically manipulate Python AST trees with a simple interface: plain-old-data-structures, iterators, and functions.

caveat I'm a core Hy developer. ;)

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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by sitkack on Saturday May 31, 2014 @04:29PM (#7827157)
I don't understand how that wouldn't qualify as a Lisp? Does it matter what the level below is implemented out of?
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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by agentultra on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:23AM (#7833612)
Lisp is more than just parenthesis, just as Python is more than just whitespace-delimited blocks of text.

We can do some neat tricks by transforming a parenthetical syntax to Python AST that may even seem like Lisp some of the time... but the semantics are and will always be Python without stretching truth and logic a little.

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Re:How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010) by chc on Saturday May 31, 2014 @12:58PM (#7826494)
What would lead you to believe that nobody's heard of Hy?
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