[Gardeners] Lisp resources of the future

[Matthew D Swank]

Though Common Lisp is not usually seen as a teaching language, and it 
has a perfectly serviceable standard, It might be nice to have a 
reference interpreter of a subset of Common Lisp powerful enough to 
implement the full standard.

I was thinking of starting along the lines of: 
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/MetaCircular.html.  The interpreter 
would emphasize clarity and concision over speed, and be well annotated.

It would be a resource for newbies trying to wrap their heads around 
Common Lisp's more complicated semantics (compared to scheme), and also 
could be a focal point for more experienced users to talk about 
ambiguities in the standard.

I suppose this goes a bit beyond making things tidy so Lisp is easy to 
use for "real" projects, but is there any interest in seeing such a 
thing happen?


Matt
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