On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 10:31:52 AM UTC-4, Jeff Bezanson wrote:
>
> This looks like a much more serious project than femtolisp, but I 
> would like to dispute the claim that it is "lightweight". From the 
> readme, it depends on python/pypy, libffi, libedit, libuv, and 
> libboost, and is 10MB which makes it literally 100 times larger than 
> femtolisp. 
>

There used to be a Scheme implementation called "SILK" for "Scheme in 50 
kilobytes" (L = 50 in Roman numerals), and I remember that the author had a 
comment to the effect: "If a future version of this bloats to over 50k, I 
will have to rename it to SICK" (C = 100).

I can't seem to find it anymore, though. 

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