A few months ago I had one of those nights where you just do not feel like sleeping. That time, I created an interpreting environment for a mini Lisp in Lua. I call that LuaLisp.
DISCLAIMER to all die-hard Scheme fanatics out there: I use the term Lisp losely here, to the extent of including Scheme. [...]
It is a strong current trend among languages to become more functional. No, not as "actually doing stuff" but in the mathematical sense of the word. I.e., languages more and more treat functions as any other value, and C# is no exception. Before you know it, we might have the expressivity of Lisp anno 1965 [...]
Parsing code is hard, and strictly limited to The Chosen Few. Right? No, wrong!
I know you are aware of some compiler compilers or parser generators out there – i.e., frameworks that let you specify annotated grammar descriptions, often using a BNF (Backus Naur Form) kind of syntax. The most famous parser generator is Yacc, which [...]