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It's still a worthwhile effort even if all he did was aggregate them.
by shawndumas 12y ago
It's still a worthwhile effort even if all he did was aggregate them.
- rurban 12y agoLooking at the coding style he certainly wrote every single bit by his own. The code itself is standard of the shelf lisp introduction as done by good universities in the last decades. (SICP, Lisp in Small Pieces, ...). But bringing this simple code to the masses who just known C, python, perl, java, php or ruby is the interesting part. They can now relate to eval, tailcalls or an env.
- kanaka 12y agoThe forth and OCaml implementations were written from scratch by chouser (Chris Houser of "Joy of Clojure"). The rest were written from scratch by yours truly (kanaka/Joel Martin). However, it looks like there are a number of other implementations happening by other people now that HN has made it more visible.