Spartan Lisp - Simple Lisp

Spartan Lisp (Slisp) is designed to be a quick and easy lisp with focus on ergonomics without sacrificing performance. Currently, this repo only includes the python implemention used for testing and quick prototyping.

Getting Started

Assuming you have python already installed Spartan Lisp can be started by:

python main.py

However I highly recommend using rlwrap or similar to get autocomplete as well as history

A few things to note about Slisp

1. There are no comments - The interpreter will ignore anything not in a Sexpr so you can freely write whatever you want so long as it doesnt include (
2. Its "Functionally Pure*" -set only modifys the active locale so you can not update global variables in function scope (to be reviewed)
3. It is somewhat vectorized - operations such as + % / etc are all natively vectorized meaning (+ [1 2 3] 2) will work
4. There is no Int type - this is more for simplicity for now but at the minute all you get are floats
5. There isnt any write functionality - although you can read a file with read0 currently your best bet is to use os to echo into a file (to be updated)

Todo

• Proper Macros
• More primitives especially list related ones such as drop and @
• Clean up the python implementation to not be a monolith file
• More examples
• Docs
• Remote IPC support