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How many lines of Lisp is C?

• xedrac 4y ago
  A lot more than the number of lines of Lisp in Lisp.
  • bdamm 4y ago
    Are you proposing writing a replacement for gcc in lisp? If the goal is to have executable machine code then the turtles must end somewhere.
    • aeonik 4y ago
      How about a Lisp that can parse the hardware specification of a chip and produce its own compiler?
      • agumonkey 4y ago
        This was a long dream of mine.
    • bitwize 4y ago
      Already been done, meet GNU Mes: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ It's a C compiler in Scheme, and a Scheme interpreter in C, each of which can bootstrap the other. The GNU project is using it to reduce the size of already-existing binary code you need to have (and trust) to bootstrap a GNU system from source.
• Shared404 4y ago
  Ooh, an excuse to link one of my favorite short stories! https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie...
  • jkingsman 4y ago
    I reread these often, and they delight me. The full series: Reversing the technical interview: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie... Hexing the technical interview: https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview Typing the technical interview: https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview Rewriting the Technical Interview: https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie... Unifying the Technical Interview: https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview
  • chris_wot 4y ago
    I wish I understood any of what they did in lisp. How does one learn?
    • Shared404 4y ago
      I wish I knew :) I picked up "Common Lisp: a Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" after seeing it highly recommended here, but I haven't actually worked through it yet.