Lali Another Lisp Implementation release
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Time has come.

Since after 2 years ago and before 6 months ago, I made journey
into making a Lisp implementation that would resemble the
original Lisp, as described by John McCarthy's "Recursive
Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by
Machine, Part I" paper[0].  John McCarthy is to computers what
Nikola Tesla is to electricity.  Even if you are a developer, you
may not have heard of John McCarthy, like few people today know
of Nikola Tesla[1].  John McCarthy is the original inventor of
LISP (among *many* other inventions, all related to computers).

So, I made Lali, which is an acronym that stands for "Lali
Another Lisp Implementation".  Lali is a fork of the project
tiny-lisp .

Making Lali is a very much rewarding journey, I never made
a programming language, and I am mediocre at C programming
language.  Yet, I made Lali possible, thanks to McCarthy's work.
I also got *very much* inspired by Paul Graham's website
of Lisp[2].  I recommend it.

While making Lali, I introduced concepts of mine into this
language, while trying to retain the minimalism of LISP.
These concepts are aiming at putting Lali on a different
knowledge foundation than LISP's.  Yet, these new foundations
are based on my knowledge (and own's life experience) of
this world.  Things such as "everything being different",
"false, neutral, positive", and "the beginning matters" has
been implemented into the language.  And, it is my belief that,
these foundations puts the programmer's mind into a happier
state and in a happier journey.

Lali is a great language to begin learning software programming.
Very simple to learn, like the original LISP is.

My hope, is for people to try Lali.  Maybe give Lali some
mid-term commitment.  Hope you love it.

You can find more about Lali at my main website:

http://tilde.club/~keyboardan/


[0]  http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/recursive.html
[1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_tesla
[2]  https://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html


tags: #lali #lisp #implementation #interpreter

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