tinylisp

Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself. Includes 21 Lisp primitives, garbage collection and REPL. Includes tail-call optimized versions for speed and reduced memory use.

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Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself. Includes 21 Lisp primitives, garbage collection and REPL. Includes tail-call optimized versions for speed and reduced memory use.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	2	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	1	4