A Lisp in 99LOC

Holy cow this is —structurally, not just expression— some of the worst C code I have ever seen, with the abuse of the 'double' type, 'T' cast that looks like a declaration, endian dependency, and strict aliasing violations galore… does this even work on a modern compiler? o.O

Re: A Lisp in 99LOC

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Post by omoikane » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 2:30 AM UTC

eqvinox wrote: post #3

Holy cow this is —structurally, not just expression— some of the worst C code I have ever seen, with the abuse of the 'double' type, 'T' cast that looks like a declaration, endian dependency, and strict aliasing violations galore… does this even work on a modern compiler? o.O

It does not, because there is a syntax error on line 81 (extra close parenthesis):

https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp/blob/2d0fb35b...

Re: A Lisp in 99LOC

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Post by curtisszmania » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 3:18 AM UTC

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Re: A Lisp in 99LOC

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Post by OhMeadhbh » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 4:10 AM UTC

eqvinox wrote: post #3

Holy cow this is —structurally, not just expression— some of the worst C code I have ever seen, with the abuse of the 'double' type, 'T' cast that looks like a declaration, endian dependency, and strict aliasing violations galore… does this even work on a modern compiler? o.O

Yeah. It's munged to fit in 99 lines.

Re: A Lisp in 99LOC

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Post by Y_Y » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 4:28 AM UTC

omoikane wrote: post #4

eqvinox wrote: post #3

Holy cow this is —structurally, not just expression— some of the worst C code I have ever seen, with the abuse of the 'double' type, 'T' cast that looks like a declaration, endian dependency, and strict aliasing violations galore… does this even work on a modern compiler? o.O

It does not, because there is a syntax error on line 81 (extra close parenthesis): https://github.com/Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp/blob/2d0fb35b...