Please unsubscribe me. Thank you. On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 12:40 PM C K Kashyap <ckkash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've been hacking on PicoLisp in the last couple of days and I noticed a > couple of things that I have to say it out (the bliss is too hard to keep > inside)! > > The sense of liberation I feel every time I am able to go look into the > source "all the way down" is simply amazing. I've attempted to hack several > Lisp systems (all of them compilers) but I always faced a wall that > required me to understand some idea that did not seem to present a direct > link to what I was trying to do. PicoLisp claims to be a system that > processes Lists, Integers and Symbols and that's what it is - nothing > more/nothing less. > > I may not have articulated the above well but an example will perhaps > help. I took a look at the assembler...wow - just wow! ... when I looked at > the assembly files, I thought that it was getting "parsed" by the assembler > in some way different from the regular lisp - since the instructions > themselves did not have the lisp parenthesis! But boy was I wrong!!! - they > are just symbols! That moment when I recognized it was mind blowing! > > Another example is Pilos (I have only briefly looked at it ) but I was > amazed that the whole thing is written in lisp - all the way from boot > sector! ...I had assumed that Pilos would be a regular ELF loaded by GRUB - > but again . not so :) > > Anyway ... just wanted to let these feelings out! > > Regards, > Kashyap > >
