lispbuilder

Enjoyed this post a lot. As a former professional game developer I spent some time once exploring writing games using the SDL and related libraries. Ultimately it did not progress pass proof of concept but we got some hobby users. Likely it will still mostly work today as Common Lisp is quite resilient to bit rot https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder

there’s lispbuilder-sdl which I was one of the founders of years ago, although it maybe suffering from bit rot these days https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder

I worked on this for a few years with some others. A fun experience to make a cl library for games that would work on the three major platforms and several cl implementations. We got bored and abandoned it though. https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder/blob/master/READM...

> whole implementation fits in your head too Of the axiomatic core. But not of any programming language. > But it turns out that this axiomatic core is too impoverished for a lot of programming. It's not even a programming language. It's just an axiomatic core. If you try to use it for programming you must be doing something wrong. > is writing a lexer. I don't see anything that Lisp offers you in that respect. Lisp is a language family, not language implementation with a library, which happens to include a lexer library. If you mean Common Lisp as a programming language with implementations, there are portable lexers. http://www.cliki.net/LEXER https://github.com/drewc/smug https://github.com/lispbuilder/lispbuilder Writing your own lexer in Lisp shouldn't be too hard. People have written applications in Lisp which includes lexer functio