galdor, 21 days ago

I had some fun: went through chapter 2 (Syntax) of the #CommonLisp standard and bootstrapped a reader. I learned a few things:

• Pure C99 is (still) easy to read and to write.
• The standard is very well written: just do what is described and it works.
• If you did not read the standard, there are a lot of things you do not know about Common Lisp.

Now I need minimal support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and I do not want any dependency.