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For me Picolisp is a very nice Lisp implementation; easy to understand, enthused founder who has been at it since the 80s. Which is amazing in it's own right. A

For me Picolisp is a very nice Lisp implementation; easy to understand, enthused founder who has been at it since the 80s. Which is amazing in it's own right. And a solid community. Won't go away any time soon. Gambit is the same age, but I find the source code far harder to read. That's a matter of taste I guess.

shakna 10y ago
F-Expressions are awesome fun. Gambit internals does kind of look like black magic half the time, but the author implemented environments because I asked [0], which is very cool. The more experimental lisps, the better we can make the future. I love how the lispish community views PLT, and always tries out someone's new idea. (Bayes integration in newLISP is cool. LFE is also cool.) [0] https://github.com/gambit/gambit/issues/204 https://github.com/gambit/gambit/issues/204
- eggy 10y ago
  Ditto on Fexprs, and PicoLisp! Xtlang in Extempore is a whole lot of fun [1]. Echolisp has amazing built-ins and runs in the browser [2]. Gambit is great to get C code out of. I like LFE, but I have to learn more OTP/BEAM to really use it. Wasp Lisp is a lot of fun for me, and for playing with distributed programs. [1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/ http://extempore.moso.com.au/ [2] http://www.echolalie.org/echolisp/ http://www.echolalie.org/echolisp/
  - shakna 10y ago
    Hadn't heard of Wasp [0] before. Looking forward to trying it out! [0] https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    Have you tried Kernel?
- freekh 10y ago
  Fexprs should be fun, it stands for fun-expression after all... Right?.. I am not a lisper though...:D
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    No, although what it stands for has been lost to the ages. They're functions whose args are passed unevaled. It kills a whole variety of compiler optimizations, but in an interpreter, there's no reason not to have them.
minikomi 10y ago
How much of an issue does fixed point over floating point become in picolisp?
throwaway7645 10y ago
My only criticism (not really criticism)is that Windows is only supported through Cygwin. I will say you can tell the community is very competent. 9/10, the picolisp example on RosettaCode is the most readable while being in the top 5 shortest for loc (kind of hard to beat J in loc).
- kazinator 10y ago
  http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/ http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/
- deleted 10y ago
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shakna 10y ago

F-Expressions are awesome fun. Gambit internals does kind of look like black magic half the time, but the author implemented environments because I asked [0], which is very cool. The more experimental lisps, the better we can make the future. I love how the lispish community views PLT, and always tries out someone's new idea. (Bayes integration in newLISP is cool. LFE is also cool.) [0] https://github.com/gambit/gambit/issues/204 https://github.com/gambit/gambit/issues/204

eggy 10y ago
Ditto on Fexprs, and PicoLisp! Xtlang in Extempore is a whole lot of fun [1]. Echolisp has amazing built-ins and runs in the browser [2]. Gambit is great to get C code out of. I like LFE, but I have to learn more OTP/BEAM to really use it. Wasp Lisp is a lot of fun for me, and for playing with distributed programs. [1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/ http://extempore.moso.com.au/ [2] http://www.echolalie.org/echolisp/ http://www.echolalie.org/echolisp/
- shakna 10y ago
  Hadn't heard of Wasp [0] before. Looking forward to trying it out! [0] https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Have you tried Kernel?
freekh 10y ago
Fexprs should be fun, it stands for fun-expression after all... Right?.. I am not a lisper though...:D
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  No, although what it stands for has been lost to the ages. They're functions whose args are passed unevaled. It kills a whole variety of compiler optimizations, but in an interpreter, there's no reason not to have them.

minikomi 10y ago

How much of an issue does fixed point over floating point become in picolisp?

throwaway7645 10y ago

My only criticism (not really criticism)is that Windows is only supported through Cygwin. I will say you can tell the community is very competent. 9/10, the picolisp example on RosettaCode is the most readable while being in the top 5 shortest for loc (kind of hard to beat J in loc).

kazinator 10y ago
http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/ http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/
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