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>This one is just for fun. When I first learned Lisp in 1981, I did so by reading Winston and Horn's book and writing my own Lisp interpreter. The interpreter was written in Basic on the only system I had access to at the time: a TRS-80 Model I. This interpreter eventually ended up as part of a series of three articles on Lisp that I wrote for 80 Micro, a TRS-80 hobbyist magazine. The first part of the series, which contains the source code for the interpreter itself, is included here. Note that the listing has all optional spaces removed so that I could fit both the interpreter and 1100 (!) cons cells into 16K (!!) of memory

http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/



Oh hah, I know this guy from Case Western CS dept. Around 1990 he was writing some Lisp on a TI Explorer lisp machine to simulate cockroach neurons for an AI project.


His pdf of the original article is there too: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/Software/BasicLisp/BasicLisp1.p...




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