Hi all,
(Noobie questions incoming.)
I have a couple of related questions about implementations:
1) Is there a definitive list somewhere of which features are present in
the different versions of PicoLisp? The comment on the download page is
a little bit vague about what has been left out of miniPicoLisp (or I
guess what has been included in the big versions, to take the other
point of view).
2) Related to that, the download page describes miniPicoLisp as "pure"
PicoLisp, supporting "the full language". Is there any kind of
established definition of what specifically constitutes the PicoLisp
language? i.e. what must, and what should, a third party Lisp
implementation provide in order to be able to call itself a PicoLisp?
(This is only hypothetical, I don't intend to try to reimplement
PicoLisp, although that might be fun.) The PicoLisp Reference page is
very interesting, and I can take a good guess at the answers to my
questions after it, but it's not quite clear-cut about PicoLisp the
concept vs. the implementation (and describes some features definitely
absent from miniPicoLisp, so...).
This is mostly curiosity, but I also was thinking about using a
potentially-heavily-modified PicoLisp as an embedded language (for which
I want a combination of some of the features from the different
implementations, with little interest in others), and would like to be
able to still honestly say that it *is* PicoLisp in use, as opposed to
some custom dialect nobody knows how to use. (Speaking of which, are we
permitted to redistribute the documentation?)
Thanks,
Alex Gilding
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