https://github.com/fogus/tori-lisp

an ersatz lisp for tiny birds. a code riff.
https://github.com/fogus/tori-lisp

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an ersatz lisp for tiny birds. a code riff.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fogus/tori-lisp
• Owner: fogus
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-04-02T13:31:55.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-29T15:41:54.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T02:57:46.445Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: langdev
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 150 KB
• Stars: 43
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ToriLisp

An ersatz LISP for little birds.

An experiment in writing languages in JavaScript.

A code painting.

An alternative to solving jigsaw puzzles.

## Introduction

Run the ToriLisp REPL in a command shell with:

    node repl.js core.lisp core-tests.lisp

ToriLisp (TL) programs consists of expressions. The simplest expressions 

are things like numbers and strings, which evaluate to themselves.

    鳥> 9

    9

    

    鳥> "quack"

    'quack'

A more extensive walk-through of the language is given in the tut.txt

file in this repository.

## Notes

The seeds of ToriLisp come from Mary Rose Cook's lovely 

[Little Lisp](https://github.com/maryrosecook/littlelisp) and takes

the MIT license from it.

At the moment symbols are encoded as strings containing a single quote

followed by the lexematic representation of the symbol. This encoding

may change and should not be relied on to remain stable.

## References

- [Arc tutorial](http://www.arclanguage.org/tut.txt)

- [Equal Rights for Functional Objects or, The More Things Change, The More They Are the Same](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.9999) by Henry Baker

- [LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual](http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf/view) by McCarthy, et al.

- [Little Lisp](https://github.com/maryrosecook/littlelisp) by Mary Rose Cook

- [Misp Chronicles, The](https://web.archive.org/web/20111109113907/http://cubiclemuses.com/cm/blog/2007/misp_final.html?showcomments=yes) by William Taysom

- [ML for the Working Programmer](https://www.amazon.com/ML-Working-Programmer-2nd-Paulson/dp/052156543X/?tag=fogus-20) by L.C. Paulson