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> Nobody writes the core language consisting of just some ~6 primitives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by arcbyte 10y ago
> Nobody writes the core language consisting of just some ~6 primitives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
- kazinator 10y agoA discussion on minimal forms is here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part1/section-6.html http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part1/section-6.html "Nobody" implements practical Lips with just six special forms. To get a ridiculously low count, you have to leave a lot to uncounted library function. Such as, oh, any numeric support. Programmers want everyday things like (+ 2 3.0) to be implemented as primitives.