Then of course there's always
https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp/blob/master/tiny/lisp.c,
which compiles to a 22k executable (after stripping) on my machine.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Steven G. Johnson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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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