Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Implementing lisp in Forth. Chapter 4. Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:46:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <87bn0bplpm.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="590ea01354cf4bcbcd857d7ebbd88128"; logging-data="22681"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+P5GCg4ljSsMrxAxy8sX7Q" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L5gpBf/ugq73Kh/bmM6IKRlQqQc= sha1:Ed1uMERQl+RFaH7LR8ePb3sPo90= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:50556 albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes: > The following is inspired by the website > http://www.buildyourownlisp.com > This site is beyond brilliant. A comparison with the lisp's in > Forth I've seen is ... well let's not compare. You might also like: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours Or just look at source code of many of the Lisps out there that are written in C or in Lisp itself. You should probably also read SICP at some point: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ It looks like the Lisp from buildyourownlisp.com is very limited.