APapgwoz·Feb 19, 2012
I believe the examples are in "outlet" the dude's lisp->js compiler (https://github.com/jlongster/outlet)
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outlet
Outlet is a simple Lisp-like programming language
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jan 25 | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 26 | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 27 | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 28 | 2012-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 29 | 2012-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 30 | 2012-01-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 31 | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 1 | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2 | 2012-02-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 3 | 2012-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 4 | 2012-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 5 | 2012-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 6 | 2012-02-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 7 | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 8 | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 9 | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 10 | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 11 | 2012-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 12 | 2012-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 13 | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 14 | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 15 | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 16 | 2012-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 17 | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 18 | 2012-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 19 | 2012-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesI've just started working on full-featured Lisp in javascript over the past few weeks: https://github.com/jlongster/outlet
It will compile to js and lua, and I'm focusing on writing games with it. I can attest that writing a Lisp compiler is really fun and shockingly simple in some places.
Current features I'm working on: http://jlongster.com/2012/01/16/outlet-gets-a-personality.ht...
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