Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
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Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
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Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#2HN loves the toy Lisps. I don't understand what this is good for.
Implementing a toy Lisp is a great exercise, a meta circular evaluator is a great way to see how simple an implementation of Lisp can be... but to do anything serious with Lisp requires a serious implementation.
and if you want to do the simple types of exercises shown in this example to play with Lisp, you can do them just as easily in a real Lisp, and you'll get better tools for correcting errors.
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#3A bit of a name collision with Picolisp.
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#4HN loves the toy Lisps. I don't understand what this is good for. Implementing a toy Lisp is a great exercise, a meta circular evaluator is a great way to see how simple an implementation of Lisp can be... but to do anything serious with Lisp requires a serious implementation. and if you want to do the simple types of exercises shown in this example to play with Lisp, you can do them just as easily in a real Lisp, an…
It’s just a neat hack. It doesn’t matter how well the bear is riding a bicycle, the fact it is riding one at all is enough.
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#5HN loves the toy Lisps. I don't understand what this is good for. Implementing a toy Lisp is a great exercise, a meta circular evaluator is a great way to see how simple an implementation of Lisp can be... but to do anything serious with Lisp requires a serious implementation. and if you want to do the simple types of exercises shown in this example to play with Lisp, you can do them just as easily in a real Lisp, an…
One jokester had a study of "Minimal Lisp", contain only T and NIL and CONS (and maybe macros?). Has anybody implemented it yet?
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#6HN loves the toy Lisps. I don't understand what this is good for. Implementing a toy Lisp is a great exercise, a meta circular evaluator is a great way to see how simple an implementation of Lisp can be... but to do anything serious with Lisp requires a serious implementation. and if you want to do the simple types of exercises shown in this example to play with Lisp, you can do them just as easily in a real Lisp, an…
I did it as a learning exercise while on vacation. Cracking open the Lisp 1.5 manual and using that as my guide was really educational.
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
Once I get the state model fixed up, I was planning on writing some simple games. Perhaps snake or pong.
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#7HN loves the toy Lisps. I don't understand what this is good for. Implementing a toy Lisp is a great exercise, a meta circular evaluator is a great way to see how simple an implementation of Lisp can be... but to do anything serious with Lisp requires a serious implementation. and if you want to do the simple types of exercises shown in this example to play with Lisp, you can do them just as easily in a real Lisp, an…
Whats a serious implmentation of lisp? Scheme?
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#8HN loves the toy Lisps. I don't understand what this is good for. Implementing a toy Lisp is a great exercise, a meta circular evaluator is a great way to see how simple an implementation of Lisp can be... but to do anything serious with Lisp requires a serious implementation. and if you want to do the simple types of exercises shown in this example to play with Lisp, you can do them just as easily in a real Lisp, an…
It's fun, and fun is good for the heart and soul.
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#9see also: really a toy lisp for the original fantasy console, CHIP-8:
Re: Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
#10Also notable, TIC-80 is an open source PICO-8 clone and it has a built-in support for Fennel. A step up from toy Lisp, Fennel is mature Clojure-inspired language that runs on Lua platform.