Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by damir » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 7:49 PM UTC

Everything Picolisp can do, and more
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Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by tony-allan » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 10:12 PM UTC

I initially confused this with Lisp for microcontrollers [1]

[1] http://www.ulisp.com/show?3J

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

Gotta admit, the author has a nice sense of eDSL https://picolisp.com/wiki/?taskDB

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by actionfromafar » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 11:36 PM UTC

PicoLisp is like an ancient technology or species which somehow survived to this day. It always felt to me like on the cusp to mainstream acceptance.

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by BoingBoomTschak » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 11:50 PM UTC

actionfromafar wrote: post #4

PicoLisp is like an ancient technology or species which somehow survived to this day. It always felt to me like on the cusp to mainstream acceptance.

"No arrays nor floating point numbers" and "mainstream acceptance" don't live in the same world, in my eyes.

Fexprs are cool, though.

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by actionfromafar » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 12:07 AM UTC

BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #5

actionfromafar wrote: post #4

PicoLisp is like an ancient technology or species which somehow survived to this day. It always felt to me like on the cusp to mainstream acceptance.

"No arrays nor floating point numbers" and "mainstream acceptance" don't live in the same world, in my eyes. Fexprs are cool, though.

Agreed, at least on the floats. I used PicoLisp in the past some, but I had to call C functions for floats.

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by jdougan » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 1:37 AM UTC

BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #5

actionfromafar wrote: post #4

PicoLisp is like an ancient technology or species which somehow survived to this day. It always felt to me like on the cusp to mainstream acceptance.

"No arrays nor floating point numbers" and "mainstream acceptance" don't live in the same world, in my eyes. Fexprs are cool, though.

Fexprs are very cool. RIP John Shutt

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by Regenaxer » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 5:49 AM UTC

No floats, yes, but it has fixnums with infinite precision

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by Paul-Craft » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 6:41 AM UTC

Regenaxer wrote: post #8

No floats, yes, but it has fixnums with infinite precision

Nitpick: they're actually arbitrary precision. There's no such thing as "infinite" precision on a real machine. This does actually matter on occasion.

Re: Everything Picolisp can do, and more

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Post by EncomLab » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 10:19 AM UTC

tony-allan wrote: post #2

I initially confused this with Lisp for microcontrollers [1] [1] http://www.ulisp.com/show?3J

uLisp is amazing - capable of leveraging a lot of work in a small package.