From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-22T15:59:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Lisp in Ruby?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:51 AM
Subject: Lisp in Ruby?


> Yeah, it's kind of a funny question, but I was just wondering...
> 
> Has anyone written a Lisp interpreter in Ruby?  Or even better, a Joy
> interpreter?

1) I doubt it and 2) I really doubt it. What is Joy, anyway?
I've never heard of it.

For a Lisp interpreter in Ruby, here's a recipe.
First of all, it's much easier to write a Ruby
interpreter in Lisp; do that, and then turn the 
universe inside-out.

Hal