Alisp is a member of the lisp family of programming languages created by Sophie Kirschner (sophiek@pineapplemachine.com).
This repository offers a reference implementation of the Alisp programming language in the form of a repl and interpreter written in D. It also includes a complete language specification.
This implementation depends on mach.d. It was last tested with commit c5cf976.
To build Alisp from source, it is recommended that you use rdmd to compile main.d in this repository with the directory contaning mach referred to with an -I flag, for example rdmd -I"path/to/mach.d" "alisp/main.d".
Here are some Alisp code examples:
>> "hello world!"
hello world!>> (let collatz (function [:n] (do
.. (let seq [n])
.. (while (isnot n 1)
.. (seq:push (set n (if (modulo n 2)
.. (sum 1 (mult 3 n))
.. (div n 2)
.. )))
.. )
.. )))
(function [:n] (do (let seq (list n)) (while (isnot n 1) (seq:push (set n (if (modulo n 2) (sum 1 (mult 3 n)) (div n 2)))))))
>> (collatz 5)
[5 16 8 4 2 1]
>> (collatz 17)
[17 52 26 13 40 20 10 5 16 8 4 2 1]