Taty

What is it?

Taty is a toy lisp written in java. It is about 1.2K lines of code and it implements the same API described in these two tutorials by Tim Baldridge so you can run this fun exercise with just a couple minor path tweaks.

Is it good?

Yes.

Resources

These are some of the resources that inspired the creation of this project:

These two video tutorials by Tim Baldridge
First two installments of Read-Eval-Print-Love by Michael Fogus
JavaScript Allongé book
Programming Languages coursera course
Essentials of Programming Languages 3rd edition
Roots of Lisp article by Paul Graham
Joy of Clojure 2nd edition
Rich Hickey talks
Make a Lisp

Usage

Getting an executable

If you are on linux or osx you can grab the graalvm built provided executables from releases.

Running without params will start a REPL session:

➜ ./taty-0.1.0-linux
Welcome to Taty!
(\)=>

Passing one argument will evaluate the provided file:

➜ ./taty-0.1.0-linux fact.taty
120

Building

Compile using the provided gradle wrapper:

./gradlew jar

License

MIT

kongeor/taty