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> I bought the dragon book long ago. That makes me think you might've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner. Imagine teaching a high school student and th

• morelisp 4y ago
  Assuming the developer is competent in their language of choice should rule out anyone who can't write a Lisp parser in their language of choice. If you're not undertaking this to learn how to write a Lisp, which includes writing a parser, what's the point? Get this tribe 3 shit out of here...
  • UncleEntity 4y ago
    > Assuming the developer is competent in their language of choice should rule out anyone who can't write a Lisp parser in their language of choice. I didn’t write a s-expr parser for the minischeme interpreter I like to play around with but I did use re2c/lemon to generate a parser. Then I got Unicode working… Couldn’t even imagine what it would take to hand write a lexer that does Unicode properly, even the scheme string and char functions call into generated functions (and a library for utf8 strings) since that stuff is complex. Also don’t know what tribe 3 is, one of those things the cool kids talk about?
• arinlen 4y ago
  > That makes me think you might've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner. Let's put things in perspective: the parser bit of putting together your own lisp is by far the easiest task of all. Complaining that parsing lisp is hard to a beginner but everything else is accessible makes no sense at all. I mean, a parser for s-expressions requires what? Five or six terminal tokens and three or four non-terminal tokens? That's less than 50loc.