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Lake Scheme
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A quick and dirty scheme written in C, for fun and to use while reading The Little Schemer. Very quick and dirty, a weekend hack.
Compiling & Running
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Portable C, only dep is glib, nothing to configure, no documentation!
Install glib 2.x using your package manager, for me it's either `brew install glib` or `sudo aptitude install glib`.
$ make
$ ./lake
That will drop you at a repl. You can type expressions and they will be echoed back to you. There are symbols, integers, strings, and lists.
> (foo bar 42 "hello" (nested list))
(foo bar 42 "hello" (nested list))
Hooray! It parses (reads), evaluates, and then prints things back.
Lake needs:
* dotted lists
* functions
* flesh out eval, write apply
* booleans
* chars
* primitives (especially define)
* define and friends
* branching
* native type operations
* symbol
* integer (math)
* boolean (logic)
* char
* string
* function
* list (cons, car, cdr, ...)
* dotted list
* a minimal stdlib
* sugar such as '... -> (quote ...)
I don't think I'll need any other numeric types, but they are easy to implement anyway when performance is no concern and they're all boxed.
Contributors
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None of them want any credit.
License
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Copyright 2011 Sami Samhuri
MIT License, see included [LICENSE](blob/master/LICENSE) file