https://github.com/avorobey/sketch

A toy Scheme interpreter written in C
https://github.com/avorobey/sketch

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A toy Scheme interpreter written in C

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/avorobey/sketch
• Owner: avorobey
• Created: 2010-07-14T10:37:50.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-12-14T13:40:30.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-29T05:03:01.277Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://sketch.github.com
• Size: 200 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
Sketch is a toy Scheme interpreter written in C. The project's in its infancy.

The primary reasons to do it were: to scratch an itch; to figure out how to

implement some of the interesting features of Scheme w/o looking up existing

implementations; and to try to get decent performance while keeping the code

very simple.

The guiding principle is simplicity of code. The next concern is performance, but

simplicity will usually be much more important to me.

The plan is to get core features of Scheme working, as outlined in R5RS:

http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/

In particular, I want lexical scoping, closures, and continuations to work. There

will be some sort of garbage collection that is /not/ reference counting.

I'm documenting my progress as I go along in a series of blogposts in Russian at

my blog (http://avva.livejournal.com). They're structured as a series of 'fits',

and code that's ready by the end of each fit will be so labeled in this repo.

It'd be nice to finish the core functionality in 8 fits.