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Roll A Lisp In C – Reading (2020)


Lisp is often known as one of the oldest programming languages. Indeed, it's conception can be traced back to research done by John McCarthy in 1960. In these series of articles I present an implementation of a Lisp written in the C language. These articles assume some familiarity in a Lisp like Scheme or Common Lisp.

In these series of articles I present an implementation of a Lisp written in the C language. The Lisp reader, which takes a character string representation of a program and loads it into data for evaluation. The Lisp printer, which can take data and create a character string representation for displaying to a console.

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