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For any programming language or platform without macros, a Lisp frontend appears.

• rdc12 13y ago
  A new law?
  • pjmlp 13y ago
    No, an old law. "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." Since the quote is from 1993, you just need to replace C and Fortran by the languages of the day.
    • gruseom 13y ago
      That's about the evolution of complicated programs, so quite different.
      • samatman 13y ago
        You'd be surprised how many language runtimes are complicated programs written in C....
        • gruseom 13y ago
          But putting an s-expression front end on the language doesn't do anything to escape Greenspun, does it? Two different phenomena.
• mkesper 13y ago
  Nisp: A Lisp that compiles to Nothing the perfect zen...
  • agumonkey 13y ago
    And if you need a Lisp that is nothing : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)
  • stcredzero 13y ago
    The perfect language for my NISC architecture for hardware. (Null Instruction Set Computer) My architecture is revolutionary, in that you can shrink die sizes and increase clock frequencies without limit, or eliminate the clock entirely, with zero impact on functionality and reliability. It is also an architecture to which the Halting Problem does not apply! This is huge, because all proofs of program correctness on NISC systems can be automatically evaluated in O(1) time and space.