Read macros are great because you can use them to turn the Common Lisp parser into a parser for any language you want (no restrictions on the grammar), so you e

Read macros are great because you can use them to turn the Common Lisp parser into a parser for any language you want (no restrictions on the grammar), so you essentially get compilers for free. I wrote a one-pass C preprocessor and parser in just under a thousand lines of code: https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis/blob/master/compiler/reader.lisp https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis/blob/master/compiler/rea...