From: Chris Pine Date: 2003-01-23T00:34:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Lisp in Ruby? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal E. Fulton" What is Joy, anyway? I've never heard of it. ---------------------------- http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html It's kind of like Lisp written backwards, and without any parenthases. It looks pretty cool to me. Doesn't seem like it ever caught on, though. Personally, I don't really *get* Lisp... I've never found a good tutorial for it and haven't bothered with the bad ones. (Yes, it's very cool that you can build a Lisp interpreter in Lisp so easily, but do you really think the reason I'm not using another language is so I can build Lisp interpreters faster?! Then why is this always on page 8 of every Lisp tutorial?) ---------------------------- 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. ---------------------------- Uh... why do you think it would be so tricky? Languages like Lisp are known for their simple interpreters, I thought. I would have guessed you could just subclass Array and call it LispList or something, add a few methods... but, like I said, I don't really understand Lisp yet (or Joy, though I think it looks much more interesting, at least on the surface), so maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about. :) Chris