Writing a lisp

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  • mal

    mal - Make a Lisp

    There is a free book online if you prefer to learn C, or use Mal and implement a Lisp interpreter in any language you wish to learn, step by step by looking up needed parts.

  • tinylisp

    Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself. Includes 20 Lisp primitives, garbage collection and REPL. Includes tail-call optimized versions for speed and reduced memory use.

    Tinylisp can be a good starting point. The writeup explains how it works and how to add more features.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • Espresso-Lisp

    Espresso Lisp is scripting lisp variant defined in Truffle for GraalVM

    I am just experimenting with something here https://github.com/Enerccio/Espresso-Lisp/

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