I’ve followed BuildYourOwnLisp[0] in the past, so it’s cool to see something that is more focused on the compilation of Lisp rather than its implementation as a language.
Ha! If I only knew about 'Build Your Own Lisp' three months ago!
I needed a simple language as a vehicle for a compiler talk I'm preparing for this summer, so I hacked along an extremely reduced LISP (a 'Non-LISP', as I call it), whose C++ implementation from scratch came out at about 1K -- 1.2K LOC with the AST optimizations I meant to demonstrate for the talk. Self-contained code here -- no libs or (much) STL: https://github.com/blu/tinl
OP, thank you for sharing Tim Morgan's work -- it's a work of love!
Nope, I'm seeing clasp for the first time -- Christian Schafmeister's talk was extremely nice to listen to!
I did come across some small LISP implementations at the early stages, but by that time I already had the AST builder done. Maybe because I didn't actively search for LISP implementations, as I didn't need a 'proper' LISP per se, more of a DSL for quickly writing ASTs of arbitrary complex computational expressions. Those ASTs were the final goal ; )
I’ve followed BuildYourOwnLisp[0] in the past, so it’s cool to see something that is more focused on the compilation of Lisp rather than its implementation as a language.
[0] http://buildyourownlisp.com