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Edit: Ok, ok. Now that the title of submission has been changed from "Toy Lisp Interpreter" to "Little Lisp Interpreter" my quip, having lost context doesn't make me smile anymore either.
I've written a toy Lisp interpreter that eventually evolved into a toy Lisp compiler. It's a gratifying exercise that I'd recommend for every programmer.
If you find that interesting, you should probably take a look at this: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction I had fun following along with him. Now, if he (or I can get my shot at it finished) can ever finish working on the byte-code based version!
The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name spaces, continuations and side-effects with commented variants, while at the same time the language used to define these features is reduced to a simple lambda-calculus.
The second part focuses more on implementation techniques and discusses precompilation for fast interpretation: threaded code or bytecode; compilation towards C. Some extensions are also described such as dynamic evaluation, reflection, macros and objects.
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I've written a toy Lisp interpreter that eventually evolved into a toy Lisp compiler. It's a gratifying exercise that I'd recommend for every programmer.
If you find that interesting, you should probably take a look at this: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction I had fun following along with him. Now, if he (or I can get my shot at it finished) can ever finish working on the byte-code based version!
I would also find very interesting to see a step-by-step series on compiling scheme (with macros included) using llvm. I never tried really hard to look for one, though.
If you find that interesting, you should probably take a look at this: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction I had fun following along with him. Now, if he (or I can get my shot at it finished) can ever finish working on the byte-code based version!
You might enjoy Lisp in Small Pieces. Is one of my favorite books The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name spaces, continuations and side-effects with commented variants, while at the same time the language used to define these features is reduced to a simple lambda-calculus. The second part focuses more on implementation techniques and discusses…
If you find that interesting, you should probably take a look at this: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction I had fun following along with him. Now, if he (or I can get my shot at it finished) can ever finish working on the byte-code based version!
I should finish my Ada version sometime... Or just start a new project haha