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A minimal set of composable features is by far my preference for language design, hence reading about PicoLisp. I suppose a large and complicated set of depende
by JonChesterfield 4y ago
A minimal set of composable features is by far my preference for language design, hence reading about PicoLisp. I suppose a large and complicated set of dependencies could form the foundation for a minimal language - something like building a Forth on the JVM - but somehow that feels wrong. Misapplied priors in my reasoning perhaps.
- freemint 4y agoThe picolisp language doesn't differ between the custom assembly language implementation, the llvm implementation pil21 or the Java implementation Ersatz. Saying that picolisp has become less minimalistic because one implementation has a library attached which you think is heavy weight makes me think you misunderstood something important somewhere.
- JonChesterfield 4y agoI was missing that there are implementations other than the llvm one, just went looking and found https://software-lab.de/doc64/README https://software-lab.de/doc64/README which I am delighted by, thank you for the hint!