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Re:LYSP (a really tiny lisp) by yan on Thursday October 01, 2009 @06:41PM (#856006)
God, seeing straight C programs that don't use any superfluous libraries or stupid coding tricks that just obscure the intent of the programmer is so refreshing. Just one C file that anyone with a barely working knowledge of C can understand and a very clear Lisp implementation.

Just don't try to learn C from it; code is saturated with boundless copying into stack buffers.

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Re:LYSP (a really tiny lisp) by mahmud on Thursday October 01, 2009 @09:51PM (#856270)
check this one out :-D

http://www.modeemi.fi/~chery/lisp500/lisp500c99.c

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Re:LYSP (a really tiny lisp) by jacquesm on Thursday October 01, 2009 @10:03PM (#856282)
Somewhere in there there is a really nice prank with a novice programmer and a one letter change.
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Re:LYSP (a really tiny lisp) by yan on Thursday October 01, 2009 @10:05PM (#856284)
Is that an IOCCC entry?

Off topic: are you still in the NOVA area or overseas?

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Re:LYSP (a really tiny lisp) by mahmud on Thursday October 01, 2009 @10:11PM (#856291)
Not and IOCCC entry; just something Lispers carry with them when heading towards obscure and very small territories. You might like XCL better: http://armedbear.org/ has a native optimizing compiler and compiles to ~5MB for compiler + runtime.

I live in Australia now, mate. Sydney. It's like D.C. but with a beach, nicer beer, better public transport and laid back people :-)

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Re:LYSP (a really tiny lisp) by Flow on Friday October 02, 2009 @01:06AM (#856475)
And fricking sharks!
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