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abecedarius
Compared to other recent Lisp posts, this one implements the nitty-gritty like garbage collection itself, not depending so much on the implementation language.
Semiapies
Is there a problem around lines 87 or 88? Or is it just with the syntax highlighting?

ETA: Thanks!

abecedarius
Syntax highlighting. Github thinks it's Scheme when it's really its own dialect of Lisp, with \c for a character literal instead of #\c. (Part of the fanatical simplification.)
sedachv
just the highlighting... it doesn't understand the \" escape
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thomaz
"Lisp compiler in (arbitrary language) in (arbitrary number lines."

Why not just metaprogram this?

silentbicycle
Metaprogramming isn't free. Trivial conversion from lang A to lang B, even less so.

I dare you to write a program that compiles arbitrary Java code to awk. They're both Turing-complete, so it's guaranteed to be possible! Cheers!

silentbicycle
PS, "ichbins" = "I can hardly believe it's not Scheme!".

For a while I thought it was [["Ich bin"s]], => "I AM"s auf deutsch.

Good to see abecedarius is finally un-dead'd.

abecedarius
"Ich bins" with the 's' actually does mean "It's me" in German (I'm told). Manuel Simoni pointed out the pun when he saw an earlier attempt called 'icbins'.