[HN Gopher] Easy-ISLisp: ISLisp interpreter/compiler
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       Easy-ISLisp: ISLisp interpreter/compiler
        
       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2023-08-24 15:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | BaculumMeumEst wrote:
       | the project's stated goal is:
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       | "I hope that Lisp will become more popular. I hope many people
       | enjoy it. EISL aims to be user-friendly."
       | 
       | other lisps work towards a similar goal. racket, for example,
       | has:
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       | - a large standard library
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       | - extensive documentation
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       | - a full-fledged IDE built in the language including a visual
       | step debugger
       | 
       | - a package manager supplying a large ecosystem of community
       | libraries
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       | - numerous introductory programming books written about the
       | language, and the language includes a compatibility mode for SICP
       | 
       | in what ways is Easy-ISLisp an improvement in terms of user-
       | friendliness?
        
         | wduquette wrote:
         | Racket's got lots of interesting features; but it seems to be
         | focused on teaching and programming language experimentation.
         | Does anyone use Racket in production? (Genuinely curious.)
        
           | soegaard wrote:
           | Yes.
        
           | Conscat wrote:
           | Whenever someone asks this, inevitably Naughty Dog comes up.
           | https://youtu.be/oSmqbnhHp1c?si=CJU8-cAQB17mHQUg
        
         | zelphirkalt wrote:
         | If I had to guess, perhaps it is friendly because the code is
         | mostly portable between various lisps? At least that seems to
         | be its mission according to [1].
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         | [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISLISP
        
           | wduquette wrote:
           | I looked at the names of the available ISLISP
           | implementations; none of them appear in the list of popular,
           | commonly used LISP implementations. I have to wonder where
           | (and if!) any implementation of ISLISP is actually being used
           | in practice.
        
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