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| ====== MiniLisp ====== | ====== MiniLisp ====== | ||
| - | So many years working with [[lush|Lush]] have taken their toll. | + | {{lambda.jpg? |
| + | Many years working with [[lush|Lush]] have taken their toll. | ||
| There are many things I really dislike doing in C or C++ | There are many things I really dislike doing in C or C++ | ||
| when I know how easy they would be in Lisp. | when I know how easy they would be in Lisp. | ||
| + | The essential lisp data structure is called the S-Expression. | ||
| + | S-Expressions can represent lots of complicated things | ||
| + | using a simple printable format. | ||
| + | reason why many people find XML or JSON appealing. | ||
| + | But I keep returning to S-Expression because they are so much simpler. | ||
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| ===== MiniLisp ===== | ===== MiniLisp ===== | ||
| - | During the development of '' | + | During the development of '' |
| appeared that the best way to test s-expressions was to make | appeared that the best way to test s-expressions was to make | ||
| the last step and program a complete lisp interpreter. | the last step and program a complete lisp interpreter. | ||
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| The interpreter is very slow because symbol lookup is not optimized. | The interpreter is very slow because symbol lookup is not optimized. | ||
| But it makes a nice example of using MiniExp. | But it makes a nice example of using MiniExp. | ||
| + | ===== Download ===== | ||
| + | The most recent MiniExp source code is available from the DjVu Git repository. | ||
| + | * [[http:// | ||
| + | * [[http:// | ||
| + | The documentation is in file '' | ||
| + | You can also check the MiniLisp source: | ||
| + | * [[http:// | ||
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| - | ===== Download ===== | ||
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| - | Both MiniExp and MiniLisp are available in the DjVu CVS repository. | ||
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| - | * [[http:// | ||
| - | * [[http:// | ||
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| - | But it might be simpler to download the tarball here: {{minilisp-1.0.tar.gz}} | ||