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Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift

by @uraimo uraimo.com 20 min read

This article describes how you can build a simple LISP, based on the 1978 article <i>'A Micro Manual For LISP - Not The Whole Truth'</i> with Swift, taking advantage where possible of the features the language offers.

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