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Life & fun · May 16, 2018

Building a language from scratch

lambdaway is built on a wiki engine, lambdatank, and a small Lisp dialect, lambdatalk.

Building a language from scratch launched on May 16, 2018 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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