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Products that do what Tiny Lisp (based on pg’s roots of Lisp) in caml does
- 1LW
2021 · justine.lol
- 2FS
2016 · fullstacklisp.com
- 3PA
2021 · apress.com
- 4IW
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca
- 5LI
2021 · github.com
- 6SN
2021 · justine.lol
- 7G8
Mar 2026 · firthemouse.github.io
- 8TA
Jun 2026 · github.com
- 9SL
2012 · github.com
- 10IC
I created this because sometimes I want more than rlwrap but less than emacs. icl aims to hit that middle sweet spot. It's a terminal application with context-aware auto-complete, an interactive object inspector, auto-indentation, syntax colouring, persistent history, and much more. It uses sly to communicate with the child lisp process and aims to be compatible with any sly-supporting implementation. I hope others find it useful!
Dec 2025 · github.com
- 11TL
2024 · github.com
- 12AN
2017 · github.com
- 13ML
2011 · gist.github.com
- 14NL
2010 · github.com
- 15RL
2019 · m.stopa.io
- 16AM
2015 · github.com
- 17LILisp in C#▲144
2024 · github.com
- 18SL
- 19SL
2020 · github.com
- 20GF
2019 · github.com
- 21LA
2022 · woodrush.github.io
- 22CU
2018 · github.com
- 23FC
2021 · github.com
- 24HT
2017 · blog.klipse.tech
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