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https://github.com/john-science/slowloris
A DIY-LISP.
https://github.com/john-science/slowloris
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A DIY-LISP.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/john-science/slowloris
- Owner: john-science
- Created: 2014-07-22T18:59:18.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-23T17:48:37.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-13T18:08:26.992Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: language, lisp
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 126 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 16
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
## Slow Loris
> A simple, interpreted LISP, written in Python.
### What Slow Loris Is
A simple, but fun language. Features include:
- A handful of data types (booleans, floats, integers, lists, strings, and symbols)
- Variables
- First class functions with lexical scoping
- Basic error handling
- A nice, homemade-quality feeling
Initially, it will *not* have:
- A proper type system
- Good performance
- keyword function arguments
- And much, much more
The [syntax](parts/language.md) is in the Lisp family:
```lisp
(def fact
# Factorial function
(lambda (n)
(if (eq n 0)
1 # Factorial of 0 is 1
(* n (fact (- n 1))))))
# When parsing the file, the last statement is returned
(fact 5)
```
### Prerequisites
To use Slow Loris, make sure you have installed [Python](http://www.python.org/), [Pip](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip), and Nose (pip install nose).
*Slow Loris is based on Python 2.7, because the `ast` standard library is wildly inferior in Python 3.*
### API Documentation
The full documentation to this little language can be found here:
- [Part 1: Parsing Slow Loris](parts/1.md)
- [Part 2: Evaluating Slow Loris](parts/2.md)
- [Part 3: REPL](parts/3.md)
- [Part 4: Variables and Types](parts/4.md)
- [Part 5: Functions](parts/5.md)
- [Part 6: Lists](parts/6.md)
- [Part 7: The Standard Library](parts/7.md)