(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer
language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter
for most of the Scheme
dialect of Lisp using Python 3 as the implementation language.
I call my language and interpreter Lispy (lis.py). Years ago, I showed how to write a semi-practical Scheme interpreter Java and in in Common
Lisp). This time around the goal is to demonstrate, as concisely
and simply as possible, what
Alan Kay called "Maxwell's Equatio...
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