Building a LISP From Scratch With Swift
Umberto Raimondi (via Natasha Murashev):
In this article, we’ll implement a minimal LISP based on the 1978 paper by John McCarthy titled A Micro-Manual For Lisp - Not The Whole Truth, that defines a small and self-contained LISP, as a Swift framework that will be able to evaluate strings containing LISP symbolic expressions.
We’ll eventually use that compact interpreter to build a simple REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) that will interactively execute statements and print out the result of the evaluation. A playground to play around with the interpreter is also available.
