Bel in Clojure

In plain words

Bel in Clojure is an implementation of the Bel programming language written in Clojure. It allows developers to work with Bel, a minimalist Lisp dialect designed by Paul Graham, within the Clojure ecosystem. The project is suitable for programmers interested in exploring alternative language implementations and functional programming concepts. It combines Bel's elegant syntax with Clojure's capabilities, making it accessible to those already familiar with the JVM-based Clojure platform.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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9 months ago, I took a gander at PG’s guide to Bel . If you haven’t read it, here’s the premise: In 1958 when McCarthy invented Lisp, he started with a mathematical, rather than a practical definition. His paper was more similar to the spec for a Turing Machine than a spec for Fortran. For example, McCarthy didn’t even think that Lisp would run on real computers until his graduate student suggested it. This was the secret to Lisp’s power. Because McCarthy was unconcerned with how Lisp would work on the computers of 1958, he made a language so powerful that it’s still magic for the computers of 2021. The original spec for Lisp stopped short of a complete language. There were no numbers or…from stopa.io

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