Lua to Lisp - is Lua just sugared Lisp?

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  • RE-flex

    A high-performance C++ regex library and lexical analyzer generator with Unicode support. Extends Flex++ with Unicode support, indent/dedent anchors, lazy quantifiers, functions for lex and syntax error reporting and more. Seamlessly integrates with Bison and other parsers. (by Genivia)

    • A Lua-to-Lisp transpiler written in Bison and RE/flex (a modern alternative to Flex for C++.) The transpiler translates Lua language constructs to Lisp. Dare I say that Lua is essentially sugared Lisp? A quote by Paul Graham comes to mind "As computers have grown more powerful, the new languages being developed have been moving steadily toward the Lisp model."

  • lua-to-lisp

    A lightweight Lua to Lisp transpiler. Translates Lua 5.3 code to a Lisp dialect.

    • The translation rules are posed in the README of the project along with the Bison grammar and source code files: https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/lua-to-lisp

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  • Fennel

    Lua Lisp Language

    • When I hear "Lua to Lisp" I think of https://fennel-lang.org/

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