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If only all the toy lisps were instead patches for sbcl, abcl, ccl, clisp, clojure, racket, chicken or gambit...

• wanorris 15y ago
  Implementing a tiny Lisp is an exercise in learning to be a better programmer by teaching yourself how language implementations work. Creating a patch for someone else's Lisp interpreter is not a reasonable substitute.
• technomancy 15y ago
  I would be terrified if patches of the same quality as my toy lisp were actually applied to a project like sbcl or clojure.
• rayiner 15y ago
  Doing a toy Lisp is a really great way to figure out how to write a compiler without getting caught up in type systems and whatnot.