Perhaps you once took a university course in Operating Systems. Or you think you did. In reality, the course catalog ought to have read: “Dark Age Software Archaeology: A UNIX Case Study.” But do we still call it archaeology if people are still building pyramids? Moreover, if architects continue to push the pyramid as the […]
Here is a very simple Common Lisp compiler [1] of Nock, C. Yarvin’s elegant systems language. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; *************************** define reader macros *************************** (eval-when (:load-toplevel :execute) (defmacro char-macro (ch &body body) `(set-macro-character ,ch #'(lambda (stream char) (declare (ignore char)) ,@body))) ; define syntax of N-expression (char-macro #\[ (reduce #'(lambda (&rest exp) (if (functionp (car exp)) […]
