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Re: kanaka/miniMAL: Lisp in <1kb javascript

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On 2015-02-27, Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> wrote:
> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
>> PS See <URL:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/A-Sample-Gui
>> le-Main-Program.html#A-Sample-Guile-Main-Program>
>
> I couldn't imagine writing code in the miniMAL language linked in the
> thread start - so many double quotes and square brackets.
>
> Nice link for libguile.

I wasn't familiar with Guile so my question was 'is Guile a Lisp
derivative?'  You might take issue with my choice of the word
'derivative' but here at least is what I found on that site:

//--clip
Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. Scheme
(http://schemers.org/) is an elegant and conceptually simple dialect of
Lisp, originated by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman, and since evolved by
the series of reports known as RnRS (the Revised^n Reports on Scheme).

Unlike, for example, Python or Perl, Scheme has no benevolent dictator.
There are many Scheme implementations, with different characteristics
and with communities and academic activities around them, and the
language develops as a result of the interplay between these. Guile’s
particular characteristics are that

it is easy to combine with other code written in C
it has a historical and continuing connection with the GNU Project
it emphasizes interactive and incremental programming
it actually supports several languages, not just Scheme.
//--clip

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kanaka/miniMAL: Lisp in <1kb javascript RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-02-26 11:48 +0000
  Re: kanaka/miniMAL: Lisp in <1kb javascript Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-26 16:08 +0200
    Re: kanaka/miniMAL: Lisp in <1kb javascript Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2015-02-27 00:48 -0500
      Re: kanaka/miniMAL: Lisp in <1kb javascript RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-02-27 13:23 +0000

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