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Surely not! Lisp must have close to the fewest features of any language (other than the weird ones like Brainf*ck that only have 8 instructions). Other than M
by Stormbringer 16y ago
Surely not! Lisp must have close to the fewest features of any language (other than the weird ones like Brainf*ck that only have 8 instructions).
Other than Macros and parenthesis there isn't anything to it. If I remember correctly, pretty much all you need to do to write your own lisp is to implement eval.
- arethuza 16y agoThat's the basic syntax of Lisp that you are thinking of - they actual Common Lisp language has a metric shipload of built in features from basic functions, data types through to things like the Loop macro right up to decidedly non-trivial things like CLOS.