AdPast9882@alien.topB to Lisp@communick.newsEnglish · 10 months agoWhich language that is not a lisp or lisp dialect is closest to lisp?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhich language that is not a lisp or lisp dialect is closest to lisp?AdPast9882@alien.topB to Lisp@communick.newsEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squaretimmem@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoLua. The great secret of Lua is that it is lisp, without brackets, without bloat.
minus-squareAn_Origamian@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoQuoting code is the only thing it lacks, but… We still have not completely dismissed the idea of providing Lua with a macro system: it would give Lua extensible syntax to go with extensible semantics. – The Evolution of Lua (2007)
Lua. The great secret of Lua is that it is lisp, without brackets, without bloat.
Quoting code is the only thing it lacks, but…
– The Evolution of Lua (2007)